BM Changed Stat Day:

AM Blood Glucose:     Time:  1139     Reading:  144
AM 60" Dig Temp:     Not taken

PM Blood Glucose:     Time:  1836     Reading:  196

    Bowel Movement:  Occurred while preparing for bed. Fair volume; good consistency but still pretty hard packed; very easy elimination; very easy clean-up. Medication Changes:

• extra garlic tab with dinner; wondering if she's fighting an infection and giving her some extra help
• 325 mg acetaminophen after dinner for very uncomfortable lower back ache

    Dinner:  Mac & Cheese with all the added stuff; refused dessert; ate only 3/4s of her Mac & Cheese; wasn't very hungry, tonight
Sleep:

• Awake at 1130
• Down for nap at 1430
• Up from nap at 1830
• Down for night at 0000
• Awake 8.5 hours

    Miscellaneous Note:  I mention my discussion with the Hospice RN who visited to day over at my most recent post at the main journal. Although it seems like the consideration of the prune juice every night addressed it, I'm not sure that it does, because of tonight's BG reading. She gets the prune juice, 4 oz of it, just before bed, so it can't explain an unusually BG reading almost 20 hours later. I'm thinking, then, that maybe this is evidence of Mom fighting an infection, especially considering the mention of right lung "crackles" by the RN, today; and, of course, the recently increased tiredness and the difficulty breathing on lower levels of O₂, although, today, she breathed fine at 4/lpm, when I remembered to dial her back. So, we're still hunkering down and waiting to see what happens. Mom mentioned to me, tonight, without being bidden, that she felt sure she'd feel better tomorrow. I hope she's right. She doesn't like feeling like this. I don't like it on her behalf.