Life Takes Guts

Huh, I still have a blog here. One would assume I'd forgotten all about it and, in a way, one would be correct in that assumption. What the heck have I been doing? Life, my friends. Life. So what brings me back here to the blogosphere?
I got an email....

Wow, a lot has happened since I last posted here. Bad blogger, bad! Ok....to get us all back on the same page:
I did see the hematologist and they set me up with an iron transfusion. This is what I wrote about it on a support board:
I got the inFed infusion where you get one large dose of iron. There is another type where you have to make multiple visits getting smaller doses each time. Friday morning I arrived at the infusion center at 8:00 am. They were very busy with folks there...

Here's an interesting development: all of my tests are normal. My hemoglobin and iron store numbers are now back on the bottom rungs of the "normal" ladder. No celiac disease/gluten insensitivity. Normal liver panel, blood counts, thyroid function, and...

Sorry for the delay in updating about the scopes. I did have my upper and lower endoscopies done. This was after much drama and interrogation of every single medical person who came within my line of vision after they handed me a consent form for a colonoscopy...