Oof

It's Halloween, a day you are supposed to be scared. I say no thank you. I am still shaking from my nice little experience today. I had a Dr. appt today to follow up with getting my anemia results. That was a little unusal because I have been anemic off and on since the start of my Celiacs disease.
I go in, sit wait...Go back. He starts telling me my iron was really low. Lowest it's ever been. Was at 9 and 12 is normal. Usually has never gone below 10. He tells me something doesn't match in my bloodwork, not disease wise but otherwise.
So he orders heavy metal testing and a count of all my vitamins and minerals. Sounds easy enough right??

Okay, he tells bonita to wait before starting. Nurse comes in with juice and a banana. I'm thinking okay it's lunch time. She pulls 7 large tubes out of this rack. I think oh crap.

She starts, I never ever have had any problems with bloodwork. Doesn't bother me in the least. Nurse across from me, starts wetting paper towels and then opens the juice. Both are watching my face like a hawk. Then by 4th tube I started feeling very, very strange. The nurse comes over and starts holding my head and putting towels on me and trying to get me to drink juice. The room turns blue and I sit there and am thinking the the hell is going on. Then I hear them start hollering "Dianna Breathe, Dianna Breathe" I don't know what happened for a second, but I got my wits about me and I have hands all over me and hearing "Dianna breathe" over and over. Good grief. They got finished, made me drink this awful peach stuff, eat a banana. They wouldn't let me leave. Finally after 20 or so minutes, they escorted me out to my car. Do not know what the Sam hell they did, but they better never do that again. I have blood work all the time, never that many tubes and that large of tubes, but I don't have a problem with it.

THe bad part was, Savannah was home sick today and was with me. She was really, really scared. I feel extremely weak now. oof. Just weak. I had no clue my iron was that low. I could kick myself. He tripled the dosage now, so avoiding a little stomach ache has now just turned into, I'm forced to take the stomach ache and a worse one. Lesson Learned.

Happy Halloween. OOf.
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