Today's Stats:

Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1011     Reading:  118

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Breakfast:  1115  & Meds What she ate:  2 hard over eggs, 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	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
1/2 cup pure cranberry juice w/12 oz water	with or after meal	standard twice a day supplement for kidney protection and enhancement of waste management

    Still checking on her blood sugar, as you can see. Seems a little high for morning, but I thought about this and realized that she's been arising earlier than before. Her schedule is changing; notice what time she awoke this morning. I didn't prod her, she was up on her own. We haven't yet adjusted dinner time to this new schedule, primarily because her early risings seem to also include either longer naps or an extra nap during the day, so lunch continues to be served 'late'. For instance...today, she's napping now. Has been since about 1330. I tried suggesting a variety of activities to keep her up: Doing her hair; Then, maybe, going out for lunch; Going to a store to replenish some sheets I finally had to consign to the quilting pile...but she was visibly tired. I remembered what the FNP said and relented.
    She had an excellent appetite, though. Two eggs, again. I think this is going to be her normal breakfast, for awhile.

Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1634     Reading:  95

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1613     BP:  133/65     Pulse:  63

Lunch:  1645  & Meds What she ate:  approx 1.5 cups Marie Callendar's Beef Pot Pie Soup with lots of added beef (in the form of jerky), peas and onions approx 4 oz variety cheese including Butter Kase, Vermont White Cheddar and Yellow Sharp Cheddar
Med/Dose	Administration	Explanation
none at the moment

    Okay, now this looks much better, blood sugar wise. I fed her a particularly hearty and nutritious lunch because, between breakfast and lunch I cleaned out the freezer with Mom propped on a chair behind me, helping me inventory what we have and deciding what we've had too long. I found 3 more sweet rolls, probably a couple of months old, from over the holidays. Mom wanted to consume them immediately but I suggested a nutritious lunch to keep her blood sugar in check, then a Just Desserts dinner in order to get rid of the last of the holiday treats. She agreed.

Non-stat Dinner

Dinner:  2100  & Meds What she ate:  1.5 good sized danish, one blueberry and half a cherry; can't remember where they came from
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	1 150 mg tab 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

    And, here it is, the last Just Desserts meal for awhile, I think. The last of the holiday sweets.