Earthquake Thread ~ Always Updated

Nice call on the magnitude. Probably was a 5, now disguised as a 4.7 (until they downgrade it further)

I'll look into it and her! Thanks for the suggestion.

I've tried to not feed any energy into this whole thing (I know YOU know what I mean by that) for a while now, but the physicalities sometimes just don't comply.

Nice call on the magnitude. Probably was a 5, now disguised as a 4.7 (until they downgrade it further)

Weird, too, since the morning one was closer and tonight's was further south ...

So true!

Anyway, longtime lurker quaketard, love and hugs, y'all

Good approach, finding that fine line between awareness and preoccupied.

You word things perfectly!

I wish they would share more often. I know large threads (lots of pages) can be intimidating to people who have never posted in the thread, but I assure any lurkers that you will be welcomed with open arms in here. : )

So long as you're not an asshole of course.

I felt awkward the very first time I posted here lol

I wish they would share more often. I know large threads (lots of pages) can be intimidating to people who have never posted in the thread, but I assure any lurkers that you will be welcomed with open arms in here. : )

So long as you're not an asshole of course.

I felt awkward the very first time I posted here lol

We're so glad you pushed through that and have become a regular!

Will you add me into your prayers, Arnie (and all!)?

My blood is just completely out of whack. I saw the hematologist today and we went over my blood test results from Monday. My ongoing problem (for years now) is that my hemoglobin and hematocrit are too high. They’ll drain blood out of me and within a period of weeks to a couple of months my levels are right back up there. I have a handful of consistent symptoms that make life a bit less comfortable, to say the least. Although they can’t diagnose me with polycythemia vera (a rare blood cancer) they’ve been ‘treating’ me for it now for a couple of years.

The blood work I had done on Monday came back showing that my levels were only slightly elevated (hemoglobin & hematocrit). That was surprising to me because I haven’t had my blood drained since December. Normally those levels would be a lot higher than they were.

The problem…my iron profile test. My ferritin level is very low, transferrin is high (out of range), TIBC is high (out of range), iron saturation is low (out of range), unsaturated iron binding capacity is high (out of range). My iron has somehow plummeted. And my ‘stored’ iron is getting very low. All prior iron profile tests came back with too much iron, which makes sense with my high hemoglobin/hematocrit. So this is weird. I have iron deficiency without anemia. With anemia, hemoglobin levels would be low. Mine isn’t, although it wasn’t as high as it normally would have been, it was still out of range high.

The bigger problem…they can’t give me iron supplements because that will make my already high hemoglobin even higher, and they can’t drain my blood now because my iron will drop even lower.

Ugh, wtf. Zero relief is what this means in a nutshell. Plus some extra fatigue. For at least the next two months before I repeat the blood work for a follow up. Like, wtf does that accomplish? Let's do nothing at all because 'we can't' and then repeat the same blood work in 2 months. Awesome. I'm sure this will feel wonderful physically. Just keep on kicking that can down the damn road docs!

I’m being referred to a GI doctor because of the iron drop. Something’s very wrong inside of me. :\ NOT looking forward to the testing the GI docs do.

FML

S, did you get the correct PM, first one, I bumped a wrong button somehow.

I am an acewhole....

It is this thread

Thread: Leave Trump Alone He is being put down on every angle for 2 years now. (Page 4)

He is attacking me personally now and over my asthma so he has been on this threat at least as a lurker

You're wonderful

Love You Mezzo

When I say fam here - in regards to you people's- I mean it. I resonate with you all more than my own blood. You're all a tough bunch and can handle your own. But I got your backs regardless. Shitty seeing you all suffer.

Stay up with your persevering spirits. ND, Sim, WA... you guys are the shit.

I did too! And I'm the OP!