Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1424     Reading:  123	A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1422     BP:  125/71     Pulse:  68
A.M. 60" Dig Temp:     Time:  1438     Reading:  97.7

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2145     Reading:  143

    Dinner:  Dark 1/4 roast chicken; about 3/4 cup Brussels sprouts with Greek Feta dressing; about 3/4 cup New Frontier's Deli Zany Quinoa Salad with added chopped green onions and chopped green olives; dessert of one scoop each lemon gelato and wild berry gelato.
    Sleep:

• Awoke at 0230, checking to make sure I was "home"; up until 0300, as I took her back to bed, and we talked to relax her and assure her I hadn't gone anywhere
• Awakened from night sleep at 1400
• Nap: 1930 - 2130
• Down for Night Sleep: 0145
• Awake 10.25 hours

BM Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1221     Reading:  103	A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1223     BP:  139/70     Pulse:  69

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2014     Reading:  126

P.M. 60" Dig Temp:     Time:  2017     Reading:  99.1

    Medication Changes:  Gave her 325 mg acetaminophen after taking her temperature after her nap.
    Bowel Movement:  Occurred before nap. Good volume; very easy elimination; good consistency; easy clean-up.
    Dinner:  Buckwheat berry pancakes with maple syrup and Fleishmann's margarine; equivalent of two sausage patties.
    Sleep:

• Awoke her from night sleep at 1200
• Nap:  1730 - 2000; I awoke her.
• Down for night sleep at 0130.
• Awake for 11 hours

Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1420     Reading:  151	A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1430     BP:  150/73     Pulse:  70

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2116     Reading:  180

P.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  2125     BP:  153/76     Pulse:  78

    Medication Changes:  Gave her 325 mg acetaminophen at 1810 just before her nap, with a piece of toast, because of all her difficulty moving her legs. Wasn't sure it would do anything but I thought it might at least ameliorate her complaint that "I feel as though I have too much leg". It took care of that, it seems, because I asked her while she was moving around, but she was still very iffy on her feet.
    Dinner:  Home made Mac & Cheese with added pork sausage, hamburger, chopped onion, celery, garlic, fresh green chilis and sun dried tomatoes; a scoop of lemon gelato and a scoop of berry gelato for dessert.
    Sleep:

• Awoke from night sleep: 1400
• Went down for nap: 1830
• Awoke from nap: 2100
• Went down for night sleep: 0000
• Awake 7.5 hours

BM Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1232     Reading:  122	A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1230     BP:  124/69     Pulse:  73
A.M. 60" Dig Temp:     Time:  1248     Reading:  97.9

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2107     Reading:  106

    Bowel Movement(s):  Pretty much every time she sat on the toilet, which would have been four times throughout the day, she eliminated some. All were the same: Fairly poor volume; thin, soft consistency; very easy elimination (mostly she wasn't aware she was eliminating); pretty challenging clean-up. There were also fecal stains on her paper underwear each time we changed them (I change them every time she goes to the bathroom).
    Medication Changes:  I was so freaked by her weakness and her low blood pressure that morning (both of which have been known to accompany a drop in hemoglobin or some other chemical problem) that, about 1/2 hour before dinner, I gave her 2.5 mg metaclopramide, just to make sure she didn't up-chuck her food. Her appetite was excellent, as usual.
    Dinner:  2 KFC Original Recipe thighs; about 3/4 cup KFC Macaroni & Cheese with added Mrs. Dash's Southwest Chipotle seasoning; about 2/3 cup KFC cole slaw; about 3/4 cup home made peach cobbler with about 1/2 cup freshly whipped cream. I want to add here that I was concerned about the cleansing effect the prune juice had finally had on her and made sure she had a high electrolyte dinner. As well, I have decided to eliminate the daily prune juice and give it to her only when I would normally give her Phillip's Milk of Magnesia.

BM & BM Full Stat Day:

A.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1121     Reading:  171	A.M. Blood Pressure:     Time:  1120     BP:  138/66     Pulse:  71
A.M. 60" Dig Temp:     Time:  1134     Reading:  97.6

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  1915     Reading:  104

    Bowel Movement(s):  That's right, folks, two in one day; one at 1150 and one at 2345; both volumes were good, adding up to excellent; both eliminations were very easy, the consistency of the first was very good, the second was a bit soft and clean-up on the first was very easy while it was a bit challenging on the second. We might have to cut back a bit on the prune juice.
    Dinner:  Left over Costco Chicken Parmesan; about 3/4 cup steamed Brussels sprouts with Caesar dressing; a can of (drained) Mandarin orange sections in light syrup.

Stat Vacation: 8/27/08 - 9/1/08

P.M. Blood Glucose:     Time:  2020     Reading:  182

    We just didn't feel like it, Mom and me, punching fingers, binding wrists, probing mouths, taking stats, so we started the vacation on Wednesday, 8/28/08, and, day by day, managed to take almost a week off.
    I'm going to record a few things here, just to get them down.
    Bowel Movements:  Have been regular, easy to discharge, sometimes a bit soft but overall good consistency. At the Hospice RN's suggestion, I've started giving her 6-8 oz (we built up from 6 to 8 over the last six days) prune juice. I give it to her in the evening. This is to try to keep from giving her Phillip's Milk of Magnesia, which the RN described as "one of the big guns". I don't like giving her as much Phillip's as I've been giving her, lately, either. It makes her feet swell a bit. The feet swelling has gone down and she is eliminating regularly, so the prune juice seems to be a good thing.
    Medication Changes:  A couple of times over the past six days I've given her 325 mg acetaminophen for stiffness and right knee "iffiness". Otherwise, there have been no changes.
    Meals:

• Since Saturday, when I went to Costco, she's had a danish for breakfast, instead of orange juice and toast, every morning. I've been putting her Benefiber in a cup of coffee with breakfast instead of in her orange juice. I assume her blood glucose has been running high in the evening, but I can't tell, from her behavior or her body, that this is affecting her.
• Some of the dinners I remember:
  • Last night we had chili dogs on bolillo rolls and lemon meringue pie.
  • Saturday night we had Costco chicken Parmesan; brocolli with Greek feta dressing; lemon meringue pie.
  • Friday we had Carl's Jr. Bacon Guacamole burgers with onion rings.
  • Thursday night we had roast chicken with rice and dressed brocolli and German Chocolate cake ice cream.
  • Wednesday night we had home made hamburgers with home pickled beets (no sugar) and German Chocolate Cake ice cream.
• All in all, hearty meals, twice a day, dessert of some kind almost every night.

    I expect I'll start statting again tomorrow, since tomorrow is another RN visit. It would probably be a good idea to see how she's doing...and maybe get back to the routine again.
    Okay, so I started to get back into the swing of things and took one stat today.