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After the high of summer...

  After The Summer!   It was a great summer, but health issues were, as usual, hanging over me.   The doctor was due to call while I was in France but that never happened. So it was over two weeks after the “borderline anaemic” test before I got to speak to one of the GPs.   The conversation was difficult – he said there was no need to do anything as I was not yet anaemic.   I pointed out that I had the blood vessel disorder, Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia, I am, on average, bleeding once per day so would be anaemic by now.   It wasn’t until I told him I could lose, in a big bleed, up to a MUG of blood that he sat and took it seriously.   He reluctantly agreed to contact the consultant who arranged the last iron infusion.   He seemed unconvinced that the SIBO is causing malabsorption of the iron tables (and other nutrients) too even though I explained that one iron tablet per day had previously held me in balance of blood los...

Summer Holidays and no misery!!!

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  The Summer! This is a long one so get comfortable and off we go.....  Full of new iron and up to running 4 minutes (FOUR!) at a time for the first time since Oct 2024 I set off to Helsinki in fine fettle.   The last chance for a while to be fit and healthy before the nose laser treatment and the fifth ablation (eye roll emoji!). Helsinki was nice but there’s not much there.   I think if you have a car and can explore the islands of the Finnish archipelago it would be lovely though.   Weather varied from wet and 13 ˚ right up to sunny and 21 ˚.   We had three nights in a little apartment.   Last year, when we had to cancel due to me being in hospital for so long (see Aug 2025) we had booked to sail with Viking Ferries to Estonia.   This year I could not find their website and so booked with Tallink.   Their terminal was not near to our hotel as marked on Google (that was the cargo port) but a long tram ride away which was a pain. ...