Today's Lunch Stat:

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1637     Reading:  102

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

Today's Stats:

BM Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1606     Reading:  138

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1609     BP:  129/66     Pulse:  53

    I don't remember anything about this particular Bowel Movement except that it happened while she was bathing around 0945 and I was relieved it happened because she had been storing her shit up for a little over three days. We both felt much better once she'd eliminated.

Dinner

Blood Glucose:     Time:  2020     Reading:  82

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

    I think I took this one as a final test of my theory that her soaring blood glucose a few days ago was just a blip. I finally satisfied myself that it was.

Combined Stats: 3/1 - 3/3/05

3/3/05 Breakfast

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1038     Reading:  101

Blood Pressure:     No longer taken at this     time unless necessary

    I remember why I took her blood glucose at breakfast; the previous day's lunch reading had me worried that maybe she was reading constantly high. I was wrong. And relieved. Can't remember why I didn't take her blood pressure, though.

3/2/05 Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1455     Reading:  206

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1459     BP:  115/47     Pulse:  59

    The high blood sugar and low diastolic blood pressure had me a little worried. I remember thinking that there was no apparent reason for either; nothing unusually hearty for breakfast, no indication that she might be anemic as far as her blood pressure was concerned. But, in retrospect, it appears to have been a blip.

3/1/05 Lunch

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1653     Reading:  165

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1658     BP:  141/69     Pulse:  60

BM Today's Stats:

Blood Glucose:     Time:  1314     Reading:  114

Blood Pressure:     Not taken

    Mom arose, on her own, at noon, today. I decided to take her blood sugar just before she ate to see if the jam sandwich she ate yesterday had worked itself off. It appears to have almost done so.
    Meds were administered as usual, no changes.
    Breakfast was typical, two eggs instead of one, eaten around 1330. Lunch happened around 1730 after a nap: Yoghurt with wheat germ. She didn't want much and that was fine with me because I planned on serving dinner around 2000, and did. Dinner was Cobb Salad with a half a deviled egg, shredded Parmesan Cheese, chopped olives and the usual vegetables, dressing and chips-as croutons.
    Her Bowel Movement occurred around 2210. Elimination was not easy but did not need to be provoked. Volume was typical for what she's been producing, lately, now that she's eliminating almost every day, although the consistency was small balls stuck together, thus a bit difficult for her to expel. I've noticed that the small ball fecal effect usually happens, with my mother, when she hasn't been drinking enough fluid and, true to experience, I've been badgering her the last few days about her refusal to drink enough liquid to bring her up to the 2000 - 2200 cc level. I used her difficulty eliminating as an object lesson, tonight, and, because of the ball effect, with confidence. She volunteered that she would not fight me on fluid intake tomorrow.

Today's Non-stats:

    Although I had intended to take lunch stats, by the time I returned from Costco, Mom had arisen from her very short nap (I was gone only an hour and put her down just before I left), was sitting at the dinette table and announced that she'd "already eaten". It took me awhile to discover what she'd eaten, as, all she could remember is that she'd eaten "a sandwich", had no idea what she'd put between the two pieces of bread. I investigated and discovered she'd fixed herself a raspberry jam sandwich, using about a quarter of a 16 oz. jar of jam. So, it seemed ridiculous to bother to take her blood sugar for the rest of the day, since I knew about what kind of level she'd be running. She was up early, again...breakfast was completed before by 1130. Since she was feeling good, staying up and moving around a fair amount, I didn't bother with her blood pressure, either.
    All meds were dispensed as normal. Breakfast was standard, two eggs, today. You know about lunch. I would have loved to been a tiny Gail on the wall watching her make and enjoy her jam sandwich! We ate dinner between 2000 and 2100 (she ate lunch between 1500 and 1600): Buffalo wings, 4% milk fat small curd milk fat cottage cheese and about a cup of Italian peas (with bits of bacon, chopped yellow onion, chopped olives and herb dressing).
    She retired just before midnight.