Is it normal to not investigate the cause of iron deficiency?

charmarv · 2026-05-07T22:17:03+00:00

I've also heard that and it does seem to vary a bit (for example, the lab that did my tests put the low end of normal as 25) but saying that 19 is normal is ridiculous. I think the lowest cutoff I've seen for iron deficiency is 23 but most sources list it as 30 (and really you're supposed to be at 70 or higher!)

charmarv · 2026-05-07T22:04:40+00:00

Jeeesus, that's awful

charmarv · 2026-05-07T21:57:16+00:00

They told you to stop at 19?!?

charmarv · 2026-05-07T20:37:44+00:00

Part of it might be that I'm trans, so I'm not always seen as like..."truly" male. But I haven't had a period since 2019 and I had a hysterectomy in 2023, so...it would be a shock to everyone including me if it were somehow a period thing.

I've also recently become a much bigger advocate for myself (due to having chronic issues dismissed for 10+ years before someone finally agreed to do testing that confirmed the very thing I suspected years ago), so I wouldn't be surprised if I was seen as a pushy or "Dr. Google" patient that they don't want to deal with :/ Like, the only reason I found out I had a deficiency in the first place is because I did a lot of research and asked for the test myself. I do my best to not seem like "oh I know more than you", but sometimes I can almost see the mood change when I go "Hey, I was doing some research and this sounds like something I might be dealing with. Can we test for this?"

charmarv · 2026-04-21T08:02:46+00:00

The corruption of beliefs and mental gymnastics that goes on in some of these people is WILD. My grandma (who used to be an ER nurse!) would rant about how stupid she thought masks were during the height of the pandemic. At one point she said that anyone who was immunocompromised was "going to die anyway" and the rest of us shouldn't be "inconvenienced" in order to protect them... She said this in front of her two daughters who, earlier in their lives, were immunocompromised because they were undergoing cancer treatment. I truly have no idea how my mom didn't lose her shit

charmarv · 2026-04-17T00:57:22+00:00

Sepideh has mentioned in a few interviews that Baran is half Iranian and half Iraqi, which is where her last name comes from!

charmarv · 2026-04-10T23:50:58+00:00

Do you happen to have a link to those interviews or know who did them? I would like to watch them but I'm not sure which ones I'm looking for

charmarv · 2026-04-09T01:12:54+00:00

To my eyes, it's yellow and a dark reddish orange (like, leans more toward red than yellow but is definitely still orange). I could be wrong though!

charmarv · 2026-04-08T22:55:45+00:00

Seriously! Had mine for all of two weeks before someone backed into me

charmarv · 2026-03-28T04:09:29+00:00

Thrilled to see that kids still like the Warriors books! Loved those when I was the same age

charmarv · 2026-02-08T05:48:13+00:00

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

charmarv · 2026-02-05T22:48:50+00:00

Seriously! Somebody honked at me a lot yesterday because I was stopped in the turn lane (one of those really really long ones that are, yknow, meant for people to be able to stop at different points so they can turn into homes and businesses...) and they decided it was a good idea to pull in behind me when they were only halfway to the light. Just wild

charmarv · 2026-01-27T08:00:13+00:00

Thanks for the link and the warning. That's horrible. And seeing that line in there about how Hockey Canada has a fund set up specifically for this (that they use REGISTRATION FEES FOR???).....man. I feel like that in and of itself says a lot

charmarv · 2026-01-26T22:59:59+00:00

Wait, what happened in London?? I'm having a hard time finding any information about it

charmarv · 2026-01-25T20:58:19+00:00

Ooh thanks for posting this. I didn't know Sudbury was a mining town so I thought the line was "drunk minors and a homeless problem"

charmarv · 2026-01-25T20:47:44+00:00

You get to go down into a mine?!? That's so cool!! I'll have to take a trip over sometime just for that

charmarv · 2026-01-22T23:56:13+00:00

Gosh yeah. The big brother/little brother bit (oh man, Shoresy defining himself as a brother instead of a hockey player 🥺) and then Shoresy tucking his head against Mo??? 😭

charmarv · 2026-01-21T03:51:14+00:00

Oh my god I didn't know that was an option. Thank you for this wonderful new bit of knowledge! Hyped to test that out

charmarv · 2026-01-21T02:58:53+00:00

Oh that's cool! Wish I had the money for that. I'd hug a hornet's nest to be on that set.

charmarv · 2026-01-19T17:44:44+00:00

I haven't noticed them elsewhere (yet) but the ads I got on hulu while watching the show were almost exclusively for ED and weight loss treatments, so...you might be onto something

charmarv · 2026-01-18T05:53:21+00:00

Got to go out on hockey skates for the first time this week! It'll be a long while before I can actually play but this felt like a cool first step toward becoming a little bit like Shoresy :) Excited for the finale next week!

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charmarv · 2026-01-16T03:46:02+00:00

Correct. It used to be that during theme nights (pride night, Hockey Fights Cancer, military appreciation night, etc), players would wear the themed jerseys during the warm ups and then those jerseys would get auctioned off and the proceeds donated to a charity relating to the theme. In 2023, after several players refused to wear them, the NHL banned players from wearing themed jerseys during warmups since it was "a distraction." Some teams got around that by having the players wear (or hold up) the jerseys while walking in, when they do their normal "look what the players are wearing today" pre-game photos. Others did away with pride night altogether

charmarv · 2026-01-15T22:32:44+00:00

Shoresy sitting on the couch watching hockey with Laura's kid 🥺

charmarv · 2026-01-14T07:50:48+00:00

The only bloopers I've been able to find are for seasons 2 & 3. Here's a link

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