BM Partial Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1321     Reading:  156	A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  Not taken
PM 60" Dig Temp:     Time:  1515     Reading:  98.9

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2008     Reading:  162

Medication Changes:

• 500 mg Levaquin added tonight for a 10 day course as a preemptive prescription for what is probably pneumonia. Taken at 2000.
• 4 oz prune juice before bed

    Bowel Movement:  Occurred during bathing. Fairly good volume; fairly good consistency although still packed into one large turd; easy elimination; easy clean-up.
    Dinner:  Carl's Jr Guacamole Bacon Burger and 1 order onion rings; dessert was a scoop, each, of lemon sorbet and wild berry gelato.
Sleep:

Miscellaneous Notes:

• Today was not a good day for my mother. Throughout the day her feet and leg edema continued, although much less than before the furosemide. Her weakness and inability to use her legs as usual continued. She was unusually tired. Around 1430, as my mother was completing her breakfast, I called Hospice to report all these symptoms, as they were developing at an alarming rate and not subsiding as I felt they should. I reported them as a reference point, more than anything else. As the conversation ended, the Hospice RN to whom I spoke asked that I take her temperature and call her again if it was over 99.0. It wasn't, although just barely under, so I didn't call.
  An hour or so later, though, Mom began to develop "tongue thickening", thus having a little trouble pronouncing her words. About this time I decided to call Hospice again to add this to the list of symptoms, just in case. The RN to whom I'd spoken has left to go on an "eval", but the receptionist promised to pass this information along.
  After an extended conversation in two parts which I will detail over at the main journals, it was decided between me and the Hospice RN on call to put Mom on a preemptive course of antibiotics for what was probably developing pneumonia.
  By the time Mom went to bed the antibiotics seemed to be kicking in; whe was feeling better and looking better, a little less weak in the legs, was able to transfer with a bit less difficulty.

Sleep:

• Awake at 1300
• Down for nap at 1600
• Up from nap at 2000
• Down for night at 0100
• Awake 8 hours