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...