ugh. my mom's having some health issues. i'm not exactly sure what since i'm not there to go to the doctor with her or anything, but something's majorly messed up with her iron. she was diagnosed with anaemia and she was doing fine for a while. but this past year she's just been totally worn out. of course this all seemingly coincided with me leaving!
she was at her regular doctor a month or so and told her, and i guess they did a blood test and her iron was dangerously low. like, if it hadn't been my mom and she hadn't been going there as long as we have (like 15 years?) she would've been put in the hospital. they've run all sorts of tests to rule out things like cancer and thankfully it's nothing like that. but of course it's even more frustrating as you rule things out because it's still not finding the problem. she had an iron transfusion a couple weeks ago and she didn't notice any change at first but started to feel better. now she's bottomed out again and is exhausted all the time. she'll sleep 10-12 hours a day and still nodding off during the day, i mean i sleep a lot but i'm not that bad!
anyway, i'm not really sure why i'm posting this but i guess i just felt the need to get it off my chest. maybe too on the off chance anyone's known anyone with this problem and can offer any advice. i dunno. so, yeah.
she was at her regular doctor a month or so and told her, and i guess they did a blood test and her iron was dangerously low. like, if it hadn't been my mom and she hadn't been going there as long as we have (like 15 years?) she would've been put in the hospital. they've run all sorts of tests to rule out things like cancer and thankfully it's nothing like that. but of course it's even more frustrating as you rule things out because it's still not finding the problem. she had an iron transfusion a couple weeks ago and she didn't notice any change at first but started to feel better. now she's bottomed out again and is exhausted all the time. she'll sleep 10-12 hours a day and still nodding off during the day, i mean i sleep a lot but i'm not that bad!
anyway, i'm not really sure why i'm posting this but i guess i just felt the need to get it off my chest. maybe too on the off chance anyone's known anyone with this problem and can offer any advice. i dunno. so, yeah.