Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1230     Reading:  121

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1227     BP:  128/62     Pulse:  60

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2020     Reading:  169

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  2020     BP:  109/46     Pulse:  62

    Pretty short day for her. I was surprised when she decided, at 2230, that she wanted to retire. But, she was visibly tired, and satisfied, and happy, so I didn't fight her. I kept her up until 2300 rubbing her feet and putting her through her before-bed routine. Her light went out about 7 minutes ago, at 2315.
    This morning I substituted a buffered adult aspirin for her usual 81 mg job. From the way she was moving, very slow, kind of cramped, she seemed to need it. She was also visibly not happy with the gray skies. The high BG just before dinner is because of the sinful cranberry scone from The Wildflower Bread Company. She had her second of three iron capsules at about 1830 with V-8 juice and peanuts.
    "Just hits the spot," she commented.
    Dinner was the first of several meal sized portions of HoneyBaked Ham that will be served probably through Monday of next week. Tonight it was simple ham sandwiches, ham heated in a skillet, "just mustard, a little, nothing else," on thin slices of home made white/wheat bread with chips and pickled asparagus spears.
    If you're wondering about her lately low BP readings, yes, she's "running a little dry", as one of the neurologists called it in August of 2004, but she's having regular bowel movements, no shit rocks, so I'm not worried. I'd say, in all, per day, she gets just under two quarts of liquid, including the liquid in her food.
    I did give her a second glipizide at dinner tonight. "For luck," I said, when I gave it to my mother.