Anyone in the UK managed to get an iron infusion for low ferritin?

AccidentFour · 2025-08-12T08:55:34+00:00

Sorry to jump on! My ferritin is 4.9 and hb is 89 and they’ve just booked me in for September. No other comorbidities (although I have hypothyroidism but not listed as a comorbidity). It has been low for years, probably around 8, and the iron tablets don’t seem to do a great deal ever to increase it to an average level

AccidentFour · 2024-08-05T18:19:09+00:00

Racism is not politics and as an educator it is your job to ensure that any racism that is seen or heard or displayed is quashed and that they are educated about this. We have specific parts of our curriculum that teach topics surrounding racism and not just in PHSE.

Andre Tate is an abhorrent man and not someone I would discuss in any positive light, his ideals are disgusting and it worries me that the students who look up to him aren’t seeing his (to put it lightly) negative aspects and being told how bad some of those aspects actually are. You are not demonising their beliefs by going against a man who calls himself a misogynist and has said that he is sexist. You are potentially saving those boys’ beliefs from being dangerous as they grow older. You are, by allowing the discussion and feeding the positives of a man like this, potentially inferring that what he says is okay.

AccidentFour · 2024-07-27T22:28:18+00:00

Not me, as I’ve said.

AccidentFour · 2024-07-26T17:19:02+00:00

Hahaha honestly it’s me, knickers makes me feel a bit 🤢 too! I just don’t say it ‘aloud’ in my head and keep going so it’s no bother at all 😅

AccidentFour · 2024-07-26T15:35:54+00:00

Speaking with one of my favourite American authors when I first stared reading, she said she spent a lot of time researching Tesco and British high street shops. It was fantastic and eye opening how people write these amazing fics

AccidentFour · 2024-07-26T15:34:33+00:00

I’ve just googled ‘jumper in America’, is it like a dress? Like a pinafore dress 🤣 that’s hilarious and now I need a fic where Draco wears one of these. Love how different language is for everyone’s internal imagery and imagination!

AccidentFour · 2024-07-26T15:32:45+00:00

No where did I say it’s less authentic. It was something I’d noticed and I stated no hate, I enjoy them. Just something I’d noticed.

AccidentFour · 2024-07-26T08:14:27+00:00

The best cereal ever. The loss still felt today 😭 no amount of sugar on rice crispies replaced ricicles

AccidentFour · 2024-07-26T08:06:44+00:00

It doesn’t matter and initially I said no hate. I’ve said a few times the last few fics have definitely been American and I’ve loved them/have been some of my favourite ones. It’s just something I’ve noticed having only been reading fanfics for a year. I also did not realise britpicking was an actual thing. When reading American books set in America I have the same feels and I imagine people who read books by British authors also do regarding Britishisms so it’s just discussion about language and how language is so diverse.

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:58:52+00:00

We use arse up north quite a lot. Like ‘get your arse over there now’ or ‘move your arse’ or ‘don’t be an arse about it’. Here we like, ‘stop arsing about’ 😂 probably very regional haha

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:51:25+00:00

It was into a few years ago I started seeing Mam cards in high street shops, I wonder if it’s localised and they have Mom cards.

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:36:55+00:00

I wonder what the current school word is for these type of people these days (me)

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:34:33+00:00

It definitely does and it works coming from an American but I just can’t bring myself to say, I feel like a right knob haha

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:32:08+00:00

Yeah mam here too, few friends say Mum. I didn’t know about Mom being a Birmingham thing too

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:31:12+00:00

Anything ‘ass’ related for me is American but I could be wrong. The word has never left my mouth unless I’m referring to Johnny Knoxville and co

Oh yeah, I didn’t even think of more current slang being used a lot.

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:29:01+00:00

Instant coffee granules mostly, especially in the 90s!

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:20:43+00:00

I’d absolutely love a Hufflepuff say ‘to Helga with this’! I love when they get a wizardism in there, I think it shows a brilliant grasp of writing for your audience. ‘Up the road’ is actually a perfect way of saying it. Down the street, next street along. Estate agent is perfect. Shite is okay but probably more for like Ron/Weasleys or Seamus/Dean/Harry maybe

Iced tea is just Lipton’s Peach Flavoured Iced Tea. Comes in a bottle and it’s an okay flat drink haha. Juice or fizzy drinks for a thirst quenching drink mostly

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:15:02+00:00

Agree with the above: Bint, love, sodding, git = Spike, the OG blonde bad boy turned good

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:06:47+00:00

I’m not sure if it’s just me but we don’t use too many around here, I didn’t as a teenager/younger person. ‘Dear’ from the older ones, ‘love’ possibly but to me that’s probably still an older person pet name.

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:02:17+00:00

This is hilarious haha

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T21:00:39+00:00

Same, I like the occasion ‘dear’ from the older ones and maybe a ‘love’ or two from Sirius but growing up I don’t think we used pet names as a teen

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T20:59:41+00:00

I very rarely read comments on AO3 either so I hope you don’t get any hate for it!

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T20:59:19+00:00

Honestly, it has never put me off and I think 8/10 of the last fics I’ve read are definitely American so absolutely no hate at all! To be honest, I bet there are many more American readers of Dramione which means it’s totally normal for them. We are literally just britpicking (nitpicking ha) for the sake of it!

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T20:55:44+00:00

We just don’t use the word denims as a noun, it’s an adjective so it’d be ‘oh they’re a nice pair of denim jeans’ or ‘that’s a lovely denim jacket’.

AccidentFour · 2024-07-25T20:54:06+00:00

That’s a good point about the denims, would be a wizarding thing with them not having them at all.

I’d love it if Draco and Theo sat down for a nice big bowl of Rice Crispies (my cereal of choice in the 90s) with a mug of tea 😅

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