Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1051     Reading:  122

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Breakfast:  1140  & Meds What she ate:  1 hard over egg, heavily peppered 3 slices thick cut sugar cured lean bacon 1 slice toasted oat bran bread with 1.5 tbl Fleischmann's margarine 1/4 tsp cinnamon on bread 6 oz orange juice diluted w/8 oz water
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
Niferex-150 [150 mg elemental iron]	1 hour before breakfast: 1040	to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg	1/2 1000 mg tab with Niferex-150	helps the body metabolize iron
100% Aloe Vera gel/1 oz	just before meal	helps increase the cells' sensitivity to insulin when used with glipizide
Protonix/40 mg	1 pill at least 1/2 hour pre-meal	standard pre-breakfast med
glipizide ER/10 mg	1 pill with meal	standard breakfast and dinner med to increase cells' sensitivity to insulin
aspirin/81 mg	1 tab with breakfast	standard breakfast med - given for anti-coagulant properties
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 of 5 mg tab with meal	given for kidney protection when her blood pressure can handle it
Daily Senior Multivitamin	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
folic acid/400 mcg	with breakfast	standard breakfast supplement
garlic/1250 mg	with meal	standard breakfast supplement; a natural antibiotic and anti-coagulant
Levaquin/500 mg	2 500 mg tablets 2 hours after ingestion of iron: 1240	standard breakfast supplement; a natural antibiotic and anti-coagulant
1/2 cup pure cranberry juice w/12 oz water	with antibiotics	standard twice a day supplement for kidney protection and enhancement of waste management

    Well, she seems to be doing very well. Up on her own well before noon, announced a healthy appetite when she sat to breakfast, which was served and mostly eaten before noon, all my chores are done, she's reading an issue of Oprah, waiting patiently for me to finish this and start the movie that neither of us has seen, What Dreams May Come. I'll give her antibiotics, make sure she's bathroomed, set her up in the living room and we'll watch a movie of which we're both skeptical. Should be an interesting afternoon.
    So, off we are, to our day.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1803     Reading:  108

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1807     BP:  129/59     Pulse:  62

Dinner:  1845  & Meds What she ate:  4 left over Costco barbequed ribs and approx 1 cup More than Mac & Cheese
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
100% Aloe Vera gel/1 oz	just before meal	helps increase the cells' sensitivity to insulin when used with glipizide
Niferex-150	1 tablet with meal	to pull her out of what I hope is her temporarily severely anemic state
vitamin C/500 mg	1/2 1000 mg tab with iron supplement	helps the body metabolize iron
glipizide ER/10 mg	1 pill with meal	standard breakfast and dinner med to increase cells' sensitivity to insulin
lisinopril/2.5 mg	1/2 of 5 mg tab with meal	given for kidney protection when her blood pressure can handle it
vitamin E/400 IU	with meal	given for anti-coagulant properties
garlic/1250 mg	with meal	given for anti-coagulant properties
calcium-vitamin D/500-200 mg	with meal	believed to be an osteoporosis preventative

    The reason I've deleted, for the time being, lunch stats, is that Mom is taking two Niferex pills at the outside meals of the day, is no longer taking Detrol and, although she does have what amounts to a small lunch sometime midday, because she's sleeping so much and eating so well at breakfast and dinner her lunch has been so insignificant that I've either been recording it as following breakfast or previous to dinner. Today, her lunch consisted of an 8 oz. carton of artificially sweetened yoghurt and 7 pimiento stuff olives, which she ate around 1500.