BM Full and a Half Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1304     Reading:  137

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1320     BP:  141/66     Pulse:  57

Mid Day Blood Glucose:     Time:  1857     Reading:  239

Mid Day Blood Pressure:     Time:  1906     BP:  136/67     Pulse:  60

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2054     Reading:  151

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  2059     BP:  149/69     Pulse:  58

    I was certainly a bit more pleased with her BG this morning than I have been the last few mornings. However, I did some control tests anyway and out of three, one was bad.
    Breakfast: Mostly normal; two pieces of bacon; one egg, over hard with pepper; no orange juice, though, only detox tea. All meds and supplements as usual.
    Then, as you can see, her blood sugar just went wild between breakfast and after her nap. Who knows why. Luckily, she wasn't hungry, only wanted coffee. Wanted to wait until dinner to eat.
    At dinner her BG was a bit better, thank the gods; and thank them for one more thing, she wasn't all that hungry. She had a cup of heavily peppered cottage cheese, about 20 pickled (no sugar) asparagus spears and 11.5 oz V-8 juice with 1/2 tsp sweet curry powder.
    As of this writing, she's still up, involved in the movie Tootsie, one of her favorites. I'll report back when she retires and her light goes out.
    Retired at 0030, 8/27/06. Lights out at 0048.

Review of 8/13/06 - 8/25/06

    You'll notice that I haven't been particularly meticulous about taking stats over the period mentioned above. Things have been going well. Over the past two weeks the first has been active for Mom, the second has been passive. Mom hasn't been particularly interested, either, in having her stats taken, so I've cut back. Those that have been taken, though, were, up to the last few days, showing no problems, no changes. Throughout this period, except for the last three days, no extra meds have been administered, none have been subtracted.
    Nothing has been particularly different regarding her arisings, either. A couple of really late days, but she's been indulging in really late nights, too; typically not going to bed before 0130 in the morning and her light not going off until 0200.
    Over the second week, her activity level hit a low and her sleep level went up to where she was averaging about 15 hours (which included at least one day of a full sixteen hours of sleep, including her daily nap). Up until yesterday, as well, it's been raining more than usual throughout the monsoon. On Wednesday we had a Seattle day, in which it rained or drizzled all day long. I was in heaven. Mom was in hell, and spent a lot of that day in hell in bed. That was the day I made the ham and bean soup and the blueberry cornbread, in order to bring a positive, comforting note to the day.
    I am noticing, over the last few days, that her BG has gone wild. I discussed this over at the main journal a bit. I have no idea why this is happening. I expected it the day after the bean soup...but I didn't expect a blood sugar reading of 184 in the morning, nor a morning reading of 181 the following morning.
    Needless to say, I'm a little freaked. I'll keep a close watch on all her stats over the next few days. I'm thinking it might be connected to the three successive doses of furosemide over the last three days and the dehydration, gentle as it's been. I am, however, cutting way, way back on her refined carbohydrates and adding curry powder to her V-8 juice, which I'm seeing to it that she gets every day until I determine whether this is just a blip or is going to continue. I'm also seeing to it that she gets at least two quarts of liquids a day. We'll see how it goes.
    I can't say that anything unusual is happening with her mood. Even this last week of lethargy is not unusual. So, I'll wait and see. I'm very glad she's got a "routine" appointment on 9/12/06. I'm hoping this will subside by then, but, well, we'll see. If not, I'm prepared for the possibility that her type 2 treatment will be changing.

Half Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1512     Reading:  143

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1509     BP:  123/63     Pulse:  57

BM Full Half Stat Day

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1426     Reading:  181

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Not taken

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2138     Reading:  165

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Not taken

    Now I'm beginning to get suspicious about her BG readings. Today has been an extremely normal day.
    Breakfast: Normal, except no O.J. for breakfast; only Detox tea.
    Lunch: V-8 juice with 1/2 tsp sweet curry powder (in the hopes that the tumeric will kick in and help lower her BG).
    Dinner: Four buffalo wings; about 3/4 cup heavily peppered cottage cheese; 10 pickled (without sugar) asparagus spears.
    All meds and supplements as listed except for yet another 10 mg furosemide about an hour before bed for slight fluid retention.
    Tomorrow, before her first BG stab, I'm going to do another control test on the new test strip reel I'll be using. I tested the box, as usual, when opening it, and the control test fell within the normal range. I'll be initiating the second reel from the box tomorrow.
    Her Bowel Movement occurred during her bathing, at about 1430: Very good volume; excellent consistency; very easy elimination; fairly easy clean-up.

BM Three Quarter Stat Day

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  14:50     Reading:  184

Blood Pressure:     Time:  1515     BP:  128/74     Pulse:  60

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  20:55     Reading:  130

Blood Pressure:     Time:Not taken

    Breakfast normal with the substitution of a piece of blueberry cornbread instead of toast and she spilled some of her O.J. and I refilled her glass, forgetting that I dilute the O.J. by about 2/3's with water.
    Lunch: Coffee and 1 oz bag peanuts.
    Dinner: Can't remember, at the moment, although I do remember that I tried hard to make sure she got very few refined carbohydrates.
    Her Bowel Movement occurred at 1910: Fair volume; excellent consistency; very easy elimination; very easy clean-up.
    10 mg furosemide given with dinner for slight fluid retention.

Combine Stat Days: 8/20 - 8/23/06

8/20/06: Half

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1411     Reading:  150

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1421     BP:  137/63     Pulse:  57

8/21/06: Quarter

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2057     Reading:  166

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Not taken

8/22/06: Full

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1425     Reading:  115

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1446     BP:  137/66     Pulse:  59

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2134     Reading:  96

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  2123     BP:  157/75     Pulse:  54

8/23/06: Full

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  11:16     Reading:  150

A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  11:14     BP:  165/74     Pulse:  58

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  18:04     Reading:  112

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  18:01     BP:  137/66     Pulse:  66

    Breakfast: Normal.
    Lunch: None.
    Dinner: Bean and Ham Soup with blueberry cornbread.