BM Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1306     Reading:  151

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1340     BP:  119/63     Pulse:  64

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2102     Reading:  116

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  2105     BP:  141/68     Pulse:  58

Awakened: at 1245 - slept 11h 35m.

Meds and supplements administered after BG taken:

• glipizide ER 10 mg
• Niferex-150 Forte
• Protonix 40 mg;
• 500 mg Vitamin C

Bathed: between 1330 and 1400

Med administered after BP taken:

• None. BP low so waited until breakfast to give her lisinopril.

Ate breakfast: between 1415 and 1445:

• 14 oz diluted orange/pomegranate juice mixture (2/3 cup juice, the rest water) with 5 tsp Benefiber
• 2 pieces bacon, defatted
• 1 egg, heavily peppered, fried, defatted
• 1 piece low carb, low sugar, whole wheat toast with approx. 1 Tbl corn oil margarine and 1/2 tsp Vietnamese Cassia cinnamon
• 16 oz detox tea, drunk slowly between breakfast and her nap

Other Meds & supplements administered with breakfast:

• 10 mg lisinopril
• 1,000 mg garlic
• 1 Senior Vitamin
• 1 81 mg aspirin
• 1 oz pure Aloe Vera gel

Walkered: Inside house between 1500 and 1520.

Napped: from 1615 - 1745.

Lunch at 1800:

• 16 oz coffee
• 1 oz roasted, salted peanuts

Bowel Movement at 1915:

• Very good volume;
• loose consistency but not diarrheaic
• very easy elimination
• very challenging clean-up
• NOTE: She expelled feces all day, which I noticed every time she peed; so I cleaned her up three times before her actual bowel movement. As well, during her bath she expelled a very small turd, which is when the bottom cleanings started. I think the laxative I administered on 9/5 and 9/6, in addition to the fiber she received in the morning and in her diet, finally kicked in. I'll have to remember this the next time I am tempted to use laxatives...light touch, very light touch, and wait a little longer.

Walkered: Inside house between 2000 and 2030.

Dinner served at 2115:

• Mac & Cheese including:
  • 1 package Kraft Mac & Cheese
  • 8 oz bulk pork sausage, browned and defatted
  • 6 oz very lean ground beef, browned and defatted
  • chopped Bermuda onion
  • chopped sun dried tomatoes
  • chopped green pepper
  • chopped celery
  • 1 clove fresh garlic, minced
  • 4 oz grated Vermont white sharp Cheddar cheese

Meds and supplements administered about 1/2 hour before dinner:

• 1 Oscal tablet
• glipizide ER 10 mg
• Macrodantin
• 1 Niferex-150 Forte tablet
• 1,000 mg garlic
• 400 IU vitamin E
• 1 oz pure Aloe Vera gel

From her nap through to retiring she drank about 32 oz decaf coffee

Energy Level: Still low, partially, I think, because of the gray, rainy weather, which is why I had her walker inside. No complaints of aches or pains, though, when I asked. She seemed somewhat more alert than yesterday, considering that I was able to get her to do some walkering without any protest. As a note to myself, when she walkers inside, at the moment she is covering a distance of about 400 feet during each session (which involves three laps from dinette to back arcadia door to dinette), which comes to just under a 14th of a mile. Today, during both sessions, she found it necessary to take a very short sitting rest before the third lap, "to ease her back". Before, and a half hour after each session, I asked her how her back and knees "were doing".
"Fine," she said with mild surprise. "Just fine."

Leg Rubdown: between 2315 and 2345.

Retired: at 0000, 9/10/06; she read in bed until 0030, when her lights went out.

Meds & Supplements Administered at bedtime:

• Niferex-150 non-Rx capsule
• 10 mg lisinopril