Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Diagnosis

So I hadn't heard from the doctor like I was supposed to, and I was beginning to wonder what was going on, and I realized that they probably didn't have my correct phone number (seeing as numbers are written a bit differently in Europe, particularly 1's and 7's  so when I wrote a 7 they thought it was a 1) but anyway I called to check and low and behold it was one number off, so I had them correct it and the doctor called me back about an hour later. So basically I have low iron (big suprise) apparantly a level 8 which she said was pretty low. I also have low vitamin D, which I wasn't expecting, but doesn't really suprise me because the winter here is pretty cloudy all the time. It should be helpful now that the sun is coming out. So basically she wants to put me on an iron  medication (which is probably just a supplement, but apparantly here you can't just walk into a place and buy something for like a headache, you have to have a prescription for just about everything). She also said that they sometimes do transfusions for such low iron, but since I wasn't exhibiting serious symptoms it wasn't necessary. She also wants to give me a vitamin D injection which she thinks will help a lot. So when I come back from Majorca I have an appointment with the doctor to get all this done and hopefully I will have more energy.

On another note here are some more nice pictures of spring.





Obviously not of spring, but of my Hawaian pizza from the pizzeria in Gais. It was yummy!

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