Today's Stats:
BM Breakfast
My intention was to awaken Mom at 1030 but my intention collided with a problem with the lab that draws my mother's blood, a phone call to MCS and a visit from Mr. Everything. None of them took long but all together they consumed the hour past my intended Awake Mom Time.
Although we've got a ham for her, now, we had a normal breakfast this morning. Seeing the remnants of that apple pie still floating in her blood stream cautioned me away from ham for breakfast, since one of the taste treats of Honey Baked Ham is that it's sugar cured...probably why my mother loves it so much.
Her bowel movement occurred at 1500: Good volume; excellent consistency, despite a few small rocks; very easy elimination; very easy clean-up.
Lunch
A very light lunch day, Mom's choice. About 3/4 cup 4% milk fat cottage cheese and 11.5 oz V-8 juice. No pickles or olives, thank you; "It's a little too close to dinner," she said. It was 1710.
"I won't be starting dinner until about 1930, Mom."
She looked at the clock. "Well, that's only a couple hours away."
True. It's just never seemed "close to dinner" before, though.
Dinner
We ate dinner about 15 minutes after I took her blood glucose: Home made hamburger sandwiches with yellow sharp cheddar cheese (for her; I prefer Vermont white extra sharp cheddar, so sharp it crumbles when you try to cut it) melted over the top, served on fresh onion buns, nestled between a thick slab of Bermuda onion and a healthy slathering of dill pickle relish.
At this writing she's up, entrenched in the first of two hours of M*A*S*H. I don't expect her to even lean toward bed for another hour and a half.
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Blood Glucose: Time: 1134 Reading: 122 |
Blood Pressure: Not taken |
My intention was to awaken Mom at 1030 but my intention collided with a problem with the lab that draws my mother's blood, a phone call to MCS and a visit from Mr. Everything. None of them took long but all together they consumed the hour past my intended Awake Mom Time.
Although we've got a ham for her, now, we had a normal breakfast this morning. Seeing the remnants of that apple pie still floating in her blood stream cautioned me away from ham for breakfast, since one of the taste treats of Honey Baked Ham is that it's sugar cured...probably why my mother loves it so much.
Her bowel movement occurred at 1500: Good volume; excellent consistency, despite a few small rocks; very easy elimination; very easy clean-up.
Lunch
A very light lunch day, Mom's choice. About 3/4 cup 4% milk fat cottage cheese and 11.5 oz V-8 juice. No pickles or olives, thank you; "It's a little too close to dinner," she said. It was 1710.
"I won't be starting dinner until about 1930, Mom."
She looked at the clock. "Well, that's only a couple hours away."
True. It's just never seemed "close to dinner" before, though.
Dinner
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Blood Glucose: Time: 1946 Reading: 111 |
Blood Pressure: Not taken |
We ate dinner about 15 minutes after I took her blood glucose: Home made hamburger sandwiches with yellow sharp cheddar cheese (for her; I prefer Vermont white extra sharp cheddar, so sharp it crumbles when you try to cut it) melted over the top, served on fresh onion buns, nestled between a thick slab of Bermuda onion and a healthy slathering of dill pickle relish.
At this writing she's up, entrenched in the first of two hours of M*A*S*H. I don't expect her to even lean toward bed for another hour and a half.
posted by Gail Rae @ 23:59
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