Today's Stats:
Breakfast
Although her pulse rate is a little elevated, I'm not worried. I took her blood pressure within a minute after she'd manuevered herself into the bathroom and sat on the toilet. Her feet were swollen, despite her stellar blood pressure, she was doing a lot of dry hacking and I noticed that her belly seemed a little swollen. I'd taken an earlier blood pressure, right after she arose, that came out 146/75. Although I waited until breakfast to make the call, I decided to give her 20 mg furosemide, just to see if we couldn't work some of that excess fluid off.
Dinner
Again, an elevated pulse rate, which surprised me since everything else seemed to be okay and she'd been sitting for awhile, but I let it go. We had only two meals, today. She slept through what would have been lunch and I didn't awaken her, figuring the furosemide was doing its thing. If you're wondering why there is a significant time lapse between taking her blood sugar and taking her blood pressure, I took her BP immediately when she arose, just to see how it was doing. I'll take it again before she retires.
I made sure she got lots of potassium and sodium, as she's really flushing fluids, today. We had a hearty home made tomato basil marinara with chopped green peppers, onions and celery and a sprinkling of sausage, over rotini, sprinkled with freshly grated Parmesan cheese and grilled french wheat garlic Parmesan bread. She ate lustily.
Bedtime
Although her systolic and pulse rate were a touch higher than I was expecting, I left her alone as far as extra meds are concerned. I figure, by morning, she'll be back to normal. She actually didn't go to bed for a good 45 minutes after I took her BP.
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Blood Glucose: Time: 1104 Reading: 108 |
Blood Pressure: Time: 1123 BP: 118/66 Pulse: 79 |
Although her pulse rate is a little elevated, I'm not worried. I took her blood pressure within a minute after she'd manuevered herself into the bathroom and sat on the toilet. Her feet were swollen, despite her stellar blood pressure, she was doing a lot of dry hacking and I noticed that her belly seemed a little swollen. I'd taken an earlier blood pressure, right after she arose, that came out 146/75. Although I waited until breakfast to make the call, I decided to give her 20 mg furosemide, just to see if we couldn't work some of that excess fluid off.
Dinner
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Blood Glucose: Time: 1854 Reading: 101 |
Blood Pressure: Time: 1802 BP: 115/65 Pulse: 78 |
Again, an elevated pulse rate, which surprised me since everything else seemed to be okay and she'd been sitting for awhile, but I let it go. We had only two meals, today. She slept through what would have been lunch and I didn't awaken her, figuring the furosemide was doing its thing. If you're wondering why there is a significant time lapse between taking her blood sugar and taking her blood pressure, I took her BP immediately when she arose, just to see how it was doing. I'll take it again before she retires.
I made sure she got lots of potassium and sodium, as she's really flushing fluids, today. We had a hearty home made tomato basil marinara with chopped green peppers, onions and celery and a sprinkling of sausage, over rotini, sprinkled with freshly grated Parmesan cheese and grilled french wheat garlic Parmesan bread. She ate lustily.
Bedtime
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Blood Glucose: Time: Not taken |
Blood Pressure: Time: 2111 BP: 127/57 Pulse: 69 |
Although her systolic and pulse rate were a touch higher than I was expecting, I left her alone as far as extra meds are concerned. I figure, by morning, she'll be back to normal. She actually didn't go to bed for a good 45 minutes after I took her BP.
posted by Gail Rae @ 23:59
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