BM Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1409     Reading:  143

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1426     BP:  110/60     Pulse:  57

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2148     Reading:  95

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  2133     BP:  130/63     Pulse:  62

    Normal breakfast. Peanuts, walnuts and coffee for lunch. Cobb salad with pastrami as the meat and home made ranch dressing for dinner.
    Her Bowel Movement occurred at 1600 [that time is becoming common for bowel movements, isn't it?!?]: Excellent volume; fairly loose consistency; very easy elimination; fairly challenging clean-up.
    As I write this, she is still up, watching an episode of Columbo. I'll report on her bed time later. She retired at 0045, 6/11/06. Her light went out at 0055.

Three Quarter Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1358     Reading:  127

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Not taken

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2151     Reading:  129

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  2148     BP:  125/61     Pulse:  56

    Normal breakfast. She complained of stiffness this morning, which is unusual so this means she was really stiff. I substituted an adult buffered aspirin for her usual 81 mg aspirin.
    Lunch of V-8 juice and peanuts. Chicken Pot Pie (Marie Callendar's) for dinner.
    Retired at 1400. Light went out immediately upon retiring.

BM Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1407     Reading:  155

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1420     BP:  117/62     Pulse:  61

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2110     Reading:  102

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  2107     BP:  114/59     Pulse:  58

    Oh, let's see: Breakfast involved the substitution of sausage for her usual bacon.
    Short lunch: Peanuts and coffee.
    Dinner: Was supposed to be Cobb salad again, but Mom is still in love with those Marie Callendar's pot pies and the cool humid evening and I couldn't see the harm. We'll have Cobb salad again tomorrow. It'll be warm enough for it.
    Bowel Movement occurred at 1600 again: Excellent volume; good consistency; very easy elimination; not as easy clean-up.
    She retired at 2330. Light went out almost immediately afterward.

BM Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1536     Reading:  146

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1555     BP:  94/54     Pulse:  62

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2132     Reading:  135

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  2128     BP:  120/62     Pulse:  57

    Normal breakfast. Short lunch: Peanuts and coffee.
    Dinner: Cobb salad with some of the left over HoneyBaked Ham.
    I noticed, on the morning of 06/08/06, that I forgot to administer her late evening pills, so she didn't receive her second glipizide, nor her second lisinopril, nor her third dose of iron and vitamin C.     Her Bowel Movement occurred at 1600: Poor volume; excellent consistency; very easy elimination; very easy clean-up.     She retired at 0045, 6/08/06. Her light went out at 0100 straight up.

Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1119     Reading:  150

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1128     BP:  158/76     Pulse:  68

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1959     Reading:  94

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1954     BP:  144/71     Pulse:  57

    I'm not sure why her BP is inching up, again. She's not retaining fluid. She's not exhibiting any symptoms of electrolyte overload (or deficit, for that matter). We're both calm, very laid back, in fact. It's true, both times I took her BP today she moved significantly, which could account for some of the jump, but certainly not all of it this morning. Oh well.
    Did you notice that her A.M. stats were truly A.M. stats? Surprised the shit out of me! She looked good, felt good, was alert and cooperative during bathing this morning. Breakfast was normal.
    She made up for lost time during her nap. Although it began late, it lasted late, too...a little over three hours. She felt good, though, afterward. She slept through lunch, so we scrapped that in favor of a tall cup of coffee and dinner at 2030 of home made cheeseburgers on onion buns with a thick slice of Bermuda onion. She received all her meds, surprisingly, including an ibuprofen a bit after dinner. The weather's gone caddy wampus on us and she's feeling it in her bones.
    She retired at 2330. Her light went off at 2350. First time in a long time I haven't had to change the date of these post in order to make sure it shows up on the day it is supposed to represent.

BM Full Stat Day

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1309     Reading:  131

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1306     BP:  118/61     Pulse:  59

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2125     Reading:  124

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  2101     BP:  132/65     Pulse:  55

    We're back to normal, it seems, at least for today, as far as her sleep quotient is concerned.
    Breakfast involved a substitution of polish sausage for the bacon. Lunch was her normal V-8 juice and peanuts. I forgot to administer her second iron capsule, though, although I gave her a 200 mg ibuprofen for her knee, which, again, gave her "fits" for awhile. She's been wearing the knee bandage every day because it remains loose and prone to slip. I'm not sure why. Once it "slipped" going down the steps into the living room; another time it apparently "slipped" in bed. Yet another time it "slipped" because of the way she was sitting at the kitchen table with her feet cocked behind the front legs of the chair. It's always something, I guess.
    I suggested another Cobb salad, tonight, but she remembered that we had pot pies and was more in the mood for that, so that's what I served: Marie Callendar's Turkey Pot Pie.
    Her Bowel Movement occurred at 2110: Good volume; excellent consistency; very easy elimination; very easy clean-up.
    She retired at 0020, 06/06/06. Her light went off at 0045.

BM Half Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1459     Reading:  130

Blood Pressure:     Not taken

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2042     Reading:  132

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Not Taken

    Today was yet another one of those insistent sleep days for Mom, so she only got in two meals and two iron pills. I also didn't bother her with trying to take her BP, since, when she was awake, nothing odd seemed to be happening.
    Breakfast was normal. For dinner we had a luscious Cobb Salad, this time with a home made Greek/Italian dressing and some cold cooked salmon marinated in lemon juice and herbs. It had all kinds of stuff in it, including avocados, freshly grated Parmesan, a heavily herb spiked bed of greens, radishes, carrots, green olives, sun dried tomatoes, green peppers, celery, Bermuda onions...amazing salad.
    Her Bowel Movement occurred during her "morning" bath: Poor volume; excellent consistency; somewhat difficult elimination; very easy clean-up.
    She retired at 0030, 6/05/06. Her light went of at 0100 straight up.