I had some back and forth with the lab the last couple of days, but finally resolved the issue of the Dr's new blood-work orders. His office was faxing the request to the wrong number, which I think is odd, because they must have done this before. The lab hasn't changed numbers.

Anyway, in my present state of mind, I was more curious and anxious to find out what the tests were and get them taken care of than to go to karate class, so I bailed on class last night.

The interesting test is for iron overload. It's something that happens in men over about 40 and postmenopausal women, because IF people in those groups have a mutation of one gene, then they can't get iron out of their systems, it builds up, and becomes toxic. The treatment for it is blood letting, so if I have it, I shouldn't let those blood drives slip past :-)

I have none of the usual symptoms, except that it's also associated with osteoporosis. It's also hereditary, so if I knew more about my relatives' health history, I would know if others have it. Oh well.

Dolly and I think that through the vitamins I take, connected to getting sufficient Ca, I'm just getting too much iron, but am not actually overloaded. We will see what the test shows.

In other iron news, at Kitty's after school care program, they were showing the recent "Ironman" movie to the kids the other day. It's a PG13 movie. The kids are all under 12, because otherwise they could be at home. Kitty is 9. Dolly was going to complain about it, but I didn't ask her how that went. Apparently, a number of other parents were going to as well. I know of some parents who don't let their kids watch PG movies without their permission. Any PG13 movie would be right out.