Mom's Daily Tests & Meds: 2004 - 2006

Daily postings of Mom's in-home tests, administered medications, food eaten and the relationship among the three and her life.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Today's Stats:

Breakfast
Blood Glucose:
    Time:  1144
    Reading:  102
Blood Pressure:
    Time:  1209
    BP:  133/63
    Pulse:  54

    I'll be keeping an eye on her blood pressure. Otherwise, everything looks good. She slept exactly 12 hours and opened her eyes on her own.

Lunch
Blood Glucose:
    Not taken
Blood Pressure:
    Time:  1737
    BP:  103/58
    Pulse:  57

    No, she received no extra medication today. It came donw on it's own. She is, of course, "running a little dry", as one doctor put it a little over a year ago, but nothing unusual or dangerous.
    For lunch she's having 8 oz non-fat artificially sweetened yoghurt; 4 pimiento stuffed green olives; about 1/3 cup of MCS's Bread & Butter pickles. We're planning Cobb Salad for dinner.

BM Non-stat Dinner
    There were so many things going on around dinner, included animated conversation, that I forgot to take stats. Later this evening I realized that it's a good sign when I forget to take stats: Either Mom is feeling exceptionally good and we're so involved in our lives that her mere numbers are forgotten; or, conversely, she's traversing an episode of extremely bad health and I am being so solicitous in alleviating stress around her that I drop the numbers game and focus on leading her body where it seems to want to go.
    We changed our minds several times on what to have for dinner but finally settled on leftovers: A little of this and a little of that. Tonight I found leftover Mac & Cheese with all the added good stuff and leftover potato soup with all the added good stuff. She didn't eat very much but I think I know why. I think she was so full of shit that she simply wasn't interested in dumping anything else into her digestive tract.
    All day long she has been attempting to eliminate. This morning during her bath she thought she had to evacuate but left a tiny droplet of a turd. Same thing just before she napped. This evening at 2152 she finally let 'er rip and had a healthy Bowel Movement: Very good volume; excellent consistency; very easy elimination (which was a surprise); very easy clean-up. I think she still has some up there to dump, but her day long discomfort subsided and although she'd been getting ready for an unusually early retirement, after the final Movement played she stayed up for almost an hour.

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