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.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:
    Time:  1419
    Reading:  104
A.M. Blood Pressure:
    Time:  1449
    BP:  126/63
    Pulse:  66

P.M. Blood Glucose:
    Time:  2126
    Reading:  175
P.M. Blood Pressure:
    Time:  2121
    BP:  132/64
    Pulse:  55

    Today turned out to be the protracted sleep day I thought we were going to have a couple of days ago. I'm not sure what the problem was, but there were some definitely symptoms. When she awoke she was stuffed to the gills, coughing up obvious internal lung congestion, and just didn't feel good "all over", although her structural stuff, knees, back, joints, were fine. She was just very tired. I gave her an adult aspirin at breakfast and 200 mg (half a generic tablet) of guaifenex. Within a couple of hours the congestion had cleared up, she felt better, but was back in bed by 1700 and slept through until 2000. It shows in her evening blood sugar, that's the only thing I can think of that would have kept it this high.
    For breakfast, again, a croissant was substituted for toast. This has never raised her BG this high, before, so I'm sure it was all the sleep.
    No lunch. For dinner she was "famished", so I made a cholesterol taste treat for her: Home made sausage, egg and cheese croissants. I put curry in the sausage. I'm hoping that ameliorates her BG tomorrow, especially since Thursday is going to be a big day: Lots of fruit, cranberry scones; we're having company.
    She retired at 0035 6/21/06. Her light went out at 0100 straight up.

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