Ferrous Sulfate 324

I think the Iron supplement that my dr has me on is causing gastro-intestinal issues, like…gerd-like symptoms. I’ve never had acid reflux in my life, although I’ve had times when it felt like my stomach was burning. Never my throat. And after learning about GI stuff in clinical, I wonder. I will have to check my drug cards and see what kind of side effects are associated with feosol. I wouldn’t imagine GI stuff would be part of it. But it does seem to be part of everything else, so.

Ulcers, by the way, are caused by bacteria, not just stress. H. Pylori bacteria. That was a bonus question on the pharm exam today (yesterday). Along with the 4 sypmtoms/signs of the flammatory response (dolor-pain, calor-heat, tumor-swelling, rubor-redness) and the 4 common disorders associated with diabetes (retinopathy- the vessels in your eyes constrict, causing bad/loss of vision, neuropathies- has to do with the basal membranes in the cells, cutting off blood flow and nerves, causing numbness or tingling in the extremities, nepharopathies- kidney issues and artherosclerosis- constriction of vessels and plaque buildup leading to TIA (trans-ischemic attack) and MI’s (myocardial infarctions- heard attacks))

Gee. Don’t I sound smart. *rolls eyes*

So. Yeah. It’s 2am. I just got home from the printmaking studio with Jay. He taught me the first 400 steps of making a print. We got up to the part right before the actual printmaking starts, I think. It was interesting and eventually I think both of us forgot that we were stressed and we just listened to music and hung out and he took me over to the slide library and showed me all kinds of art, some that I knew and some that I didn’t. We didn’t even talk much. Except about burgerhead strippers. I was excited by the naughty bits. *grin*

See, Jay’s current theme is…hamburger heads. Kind of. It started off with a chicken eating a hamburger. Then he did this wonderful old time sci-fi print of UFS’s and hamburgerFO’s. And then he did a hamburger head robot DJ. And then tonite at the allie’s meeting, he drew this hamburger head stripper on the board. He liked it, so I took pictures of it with my phone and later when he called and we decided to hang out, he asked if I wanted to help him make some prints. So I emailed him the pics and that’s when last I wrote- while he was blowing the pic up and printing it out. So.

Homie called while we were there. She still sounded totally down, but she just called to let me know that she was home and in bed and mostly-ok. Which made me feel a lot better. I need to think of something to cheer her up. Maybe I’ll buy her some fun balloons.

I’m exhausted. But I suppose I’m glad that I hung out with Jay, cuz he seemed to feel better for it, and I don’t feel worse for it. I’m too tired to know if I feel better, but I suspect that I do.

Here’s a pic of Jay’s drawing:

hehe. She’s got naughty bits. It looked really neat in all its different pieces during the printmaking process.

I desperately need to do laundry tomorrow. And finish the dishes. And FINALLY clean the animal tanks, oi vey.

But mostly I’m going to sleep. Oi.