A mildly significant drama is developing...
...that I intend to solve over my mother's blood glucose. I'm going to begin posting backwards on How Sweet It Is what history I have Glucometrized and see if my contention that her blood sugar is performing "essentially the same" (so to speak) as it did when she was on metformin tests positive. If it doesn't I may consider adding as her PCP suggested, half a 1000 mg tablet, or, maybe, one 850 mg dose in the middle of the day, although I'm not sure if its best to give this medication alone between doses of glipizide or if it works best when taken in conjunction with a dose of glipizide. I'll attempt to run that one by her PCP before I do this. If she begins to revert to her on-metformin demeanor though, I'll immediately stop the metformin. In the meantime, since I expect us to head up to Prescott soon, I may hold off on trying this (unless her blood glucose gets really out of hand a.m./p.m. and is soaring well above 200 midday). Her metabolism may be going through some back and forth adjustments that might settle down when it perceives that movement is going to be routine for Mom.
    The a/c turned out to be a contact problem rather than a thermostat problem so we are good to go for free, since the contact problem is covered under the warranty for the new cooling unit. Excellent.
    Mom's moving slow, as usual, but she's dressed [I gave her a choice of full bath or Baby Wipes wipe-down; do I really need to tell you for which she opted?!?] and arguing about how she needn't run errands with me after her hair appointment, so we're in good order here today.
    And, oh, check out the new Updates/To Do List [As of 11/23/08, hasn't been transferred to new server, yet] item about a new procedure I'll soon be implementing. There is another new item on the What's Next side. Although the list keeps getting longer, I am knocking a few things off here and there as well.
    Later, I'm sure.
- posted by gail rae @ 10:56   email...this post