Getting my anemia fixed.
I broke my wrist right before New Year and spent some time in the hospital for surgery intake, and they did a bunch of blood tests. The results show up in your phone app in about 20 minutes!
Turns out my iron levels and hematocrit were abysmal. Like “no wonder I suck at bicycles” bad.
Kaiser had said, “oh your iron is a little low we might look at that in a year or two” United said, “dood you’re anemic here’s what we will do.” And then they did it.
- Check me for internal bleeding. “Bloods gotta be going somewhere.” Ick. This is an involved, unpleasant process. Double ick. Turns out I have Barrett’s Syndrome.
- Take a pill every morning, and come back in three years to get scoped again.
- Take iron, but not too much, since it can “irritate the stomach.” I’m pretty sure this means “make you bleed internally which defeats the whole point.” I won’t go into why I think this is the case.
So if you feel weak and asthmatic riding bikes and your poops are often almost black… talk to a doctor about anemia!
