The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
Ernst Moritz Arndt


I had my first Phlebotomy today, and no the ph is not silent. This is a process where in order to reduce the level of iron in your system they take out a liter of blood just like when you go to donate it at the Red Cross. The trouble is it goes to a lab to be checked out and if you did donate blood they could not use it, and you have to repeat it every few weeks for the rest of your life. I guess going to the Red Cross would be a lot cheaper than the hospital.
Hereditary Hemocromatosis is the inability of your body to get rid of excess iron which can cause a lot of serious problems with your organs and joints. There are other treatments but only if bleeding doesn’t work.
It went well though, no dizziness and only mild weakness. Well, the dizziness is more or less normal for me. If I think to much the old brainpan heats up causing all sorts of strange things to happen.
Let me see, they took my blood to lower take my iron. I guess I can’t call myself the lord of the land.
Funny, next they will give me a jar of leaches and tell me… Go and heal thyself.