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
Med administered after BP taken:
- None. BP low so waited until breakfast to give her lisinopril.
- 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
- 10 mg lisinopril
- 1,000 mg garlic
- 1 Senior Vitamin
- 1 81 mg aspirin
- 1 oz pure Aloe Vera gel
Napped: from 1615 - 1745.
Lunch at 1800:
- 16 oz coffee
- 1 oz roasted, salted peanuts
- 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.
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
- 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
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