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I was diagnosed in late August 2009 with anemia and I was told to go on iron pills. No big deal. I have been taking one everyday since. Earlier this week I went to the doctor for blood work and I get a call saying my red blood count is still low. They asked me if I was still on the iron pills. I told them I was and have been. I didn't get much info from the nurse as far as what is to be done next other than they want me to come back in. So now I am stuck waiting til next week to find out.

I was wondering what would cause my red blood cells not to be higher even after taking iron for 7 months. This is puzzling. I don't feel tired all the time. Sometimes it still hits me though. I am wondering am I doing something wrong? Can anemia be worse than this? I cant imagine taking 2 pills cause 1 is killer on the stomach. I have to take it at night so my thyroid pill doesn't interact with it. Now I am a little worried.

What kind of test will they need now?

Anyone with info please help. I want some info before my appointment next week.

I have a Iphone that is not jailbroken but I cant load my apps. I can still use camera, internet and such but when I go to Facebook or certain apps it just flashes for a second then goes back to the app screen. Can someone help me? Thank you.

I need help with a woman who is desperate. She is so sad but I don't know the right words to say. She has had a difficult few years. I know she has a drinking problem (although she may not see it). She has done drugs in the past but she says she doesn't now. Last year Her and her late husband had the kids taken away from her for abandonment.She and her husband were separated. She was living with a boyfriend. Her husband would leave for work and she would come in and take care of the kids. Well she was a little late and a nosy neighbor found out and called the police and they took them out. They were working to get back the kids when her she has got into it AGAIN with her boyfriend and called her husband and he was coming to rescue her. Well he got her and took off with her when her boyfriend jumped in his vehicle and followed them. The men got out of the vehicles and started to fight. Well it ended up costing her husband his life. They supposedly both had a knife and he was stabbed. She said it wasn't intentional but the fact remains it happened. Even though she was not IN LOVE with him she still loved him and they were like best friends.So from then on she had to work harder to get the kids back. She did in December but the boyfriend (out on bail) came back around and started to do things for her. She said she noticed a change in him and she still loved him. Supposedly no more abuse and what not. Well one morning the social worker came by to have her sign papers and found the guy in her house. That made her lose all her parental rights. She was not supposed to have contact with him. She realizes it was a mistake but it happened so lets move on. She has gotten into a self destructive pattern recently. More drinking and stuff. Well today I logged onto facebook and i see random thought she has put on there Some hinting to "ending it all". I know it is a cry for help.From what I hear she has blocked certain people on Facebook but not me. I want to help but I just don't know what to say. What do you say to a woman who has lost everything GOOD in her life. I know Death is not the answer but I need more than that. I know to tell her to seek help at the hospital but I dont even know where she is. If I don't hear from her buy tomorrow morning I am going to send the police to do a welfare check at her home. What in the mean time.What do I do or say?

I have just started seeing a therapist to deal with this thing I call life. A lot of my problems are marriage related but a lot are from childhood too. We are dealing with each aspect individually I guess. Like I said I just started. My question is Since I have marital problems would insurance let me bring in my husband to work out these problems with him? Or is that separate bill? Will I have to go to Marriage counseling as well. I know my insurance pays for therapy for me personally but I am not sure about group or couples therapy. I just feel like I need to be somewhere safe to talk to him. Safe meaning a place where we can open up about our feelings and not Have him storm off cause he cant handle them. No judgments from either side.

Does anyone have any experience with this? I don't want to ask my therapist right now because I know she is still wanting to deal with me only.

I have a bottle full of Valium. I have alot of problems with life and I want to just not care right now. Will the Valium make me not care or will it just put me to sleep? I can do without the sleep til later I just don't want to care. I would drink but I am here with my kids by myself and I don't want to get drunk. Please let me know.

I am attending a funeral tomorrow. He was my son's school friend and he was just 12 years old. That is too young to be taken away. It was a freak accident. My son is holding up good but I would like something short to write in the sympathy card. No words can make a grieving parent feel better but I still would like to add a few. If anyone can give me anything that would be great.

Please pray for the Goodman family. God knows they need it.

Some college kids can't get this but a 4 year old should be able to tell you right away.

The riddle:

A E F H I K L M N T V W X Y Z

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B C D G J O P Q R S U

Why are some letters above the line and some letters below?

I went shopping yesterday morning and I and bought a bunch of things. Well in this bunch was a Nintendo DS lite. The cashier past it over the scanner and the alarm deactivator and put it in the bag. I paid for my merchandise and left the store and continued on my shopping day. Later that day I found the same DS for 30.00 cheaper so I decided to bring back the system. Well I got it out of the bag and I found my receipt. I looked at the receipt and that is when I realized she didn't charge me for the DS. I was dumbfounded. So I sat there for a minute in the parking lot and thought about it. Well after a few minutes I decided to take it back. I took it back because if I didn't it would eat at me. I would feel guilt every time my child uses the game. Now I have asked a few people what they would have done and I have got different answers. Some said they would have taken it back too and the others said I was crazy for taking it back because it was their fault and the cashier should have paid better attention because it has a serial number and has to be put in at the register.

What is your opinion?

My husband is a diabetic. He was diagnosed almost 10 years ago. At the beginning he was good about checking his blood sugar and taking his medicine but now fast forward to 2009 he tries to control it with diet and exercise. Well Tuesday he ended up in the hospital with an infection in his leg. Celulitis. The skin isn't even broken. It is all a closed wound infection.They are controlling his blood sugar with insulin shots because I guess it is more convenient.I just hope he is not insulin dependent. Luckily the swelling is going down and he may get out tomorrow(yea). This isn't the first scare we have had. In December 2005 he was in the hospital for 2 weeks for a infected toe. They didn't rule out amputation but they controlled it with powerful antibiotics, painful debridding, and a PICC line for 6 weeks after he left the hospital. This time around it is much easier.

He is a great father and a great provider and I don't want to lose him. I have told him that. What else can I do? I cant hold his hand for everything. He has to be the one responsible to take his medicine like prescribed because he works out of state. When he is on antibiotics he takes them faithfully.So I know he can do it.

He has told me the reason he doesn't like taking the diabetes medicine. No matter what strength is prescribed it drops his blood sugar then he has to eat more. He is struggling with weight issues. He also thinks that checking his blood sugar once a day is sufficient.Everytime I have seen his meter it has had readings of no less than 120. He said his normal is 140. I know this cant be right. Can someone give me some advice. How did you deal with your struggle or spouse's struggle?

Friday afternoon I was cooking and I stupidly lifted the lid inward and the steam burned my thumb. I immediately ran it under cool water for 5 to 10 minutes to stop the initial cooking. I didnt have anything to use so I toughed it out. It didn't look like much except for a red thumb on the inside and out. Well the next morning when I was getting my shoes on I used my thumb not thinking because it wasn't in major pain. When I slipped my shoe on my foot caught my thumb and broke a blister I didn't even know I had. I looked down and realized I had two blisters. Now one is popped and one isn't. The one that is popped is giving me the most grief. I went out and bought Neosporin and slathered it on it but didn't cover it.

I was wondering would the redness be from the initial burn 48 hours later or could this be a sign of infection? When I press the red area it is painful but it still could be the burn. I just don't know.

I was a dummy and went to bed last night and forgot to soak the beans last night. So I got up this morning and did my morning thing and around 11 am I realized I forgot to soak the beans.

I have already picked through them and rinsed them and put them on the stove. I have added smokehouse meat to the pot and the are at a soft boil and have been at a soft boil for about 2 hours.

My question is how long will they take to cook because I did not presoak them? Will they still be okay because I did not presoak? I have never put them straight out of the bag into the pot. I have always presoaked overnight.

These are your regular white beans. 1 and 1/2 pounds.

We have been married for 11 years and have 3 kids. He works in another state and only gets to come home every other weekend. Bummer but right now it is paying the bills, keeping a roof over our head and putting food on the table. What I bring in isn't enough. We have adjusted.

Well We thought he had the flu Monday morning and he was not at work he was sleeping. So I decided to leave him alone and let him sleep the rest of the day. Tuesday morning I get a call from my sister saying "the boss was checking up on him and I should call the boss." So I decided I would call my husband first and tell him i was calling the boss. I called my husband and it went to voice mail. I figured he was still sick so I decided to call his family's cell and she informed me that he hasn't been home in 2 nights. He is a quiet person in the house but she is a light sleeper and she knows when someone is moving about in the house. All she could say is maybe he slipped in and out without me knowing but his room looks untouched. The last time she seen him was Sunday night when he was going to do a delivery. It was a local. I knew I had talked to him Monday and he sounded like he was sleeping so I decided to call his boss to figure out just where the delivery went. He told me that He came in to work on Monday morning and he sent him home that morning because he was throwing up and looked like death warmed over. He did not hear from him since.Now I was getting worried. It was Tuesday, he was sick, and no one knew where he was. After hours had past my husband contacted his family and told them he was in the hospital. He called his family first because he really didn't want to worry me. GO FIGURE. So he called me and told me. We talked for a little bit and he explained the situation. He was in the Emergency Room. He has cellulitis in his leg. He is diabetic so it makes it worse. I asked him when did he get there. His response was "couple of hours ago".(remind you this was Tuesday).I said "oh you came from work?" He said "yeah". I didnt say nothing about talking to his family or his boss. He does not know I know some facts. Skip forward to Today (Thursday) I worked it in again about when he got there and he said the 17th which would be Tuesday. I didn't press it. He needs to get better.So now I know for sure he is lying to me.

I just need to why and he needs to account for those 2 nights Sunday night and all of Monday that he was not at home. And where was he sleeping when I called him at 9:30 am on Monday morning.

What are your thoughts on this? What would your reactions be?

Sorry for this being so long. I had to explain it.

How do you calculate a total grade average when the daily work 85 (40%) and the test are 83 (60%)? Please explain to me how to do this.

My husband is entertaining a job prospect that requires him to wear steel toe boots. The problem is the steel toes tear up his toes and he is diabetic. We cannot afford for him to have wounds on his feet.

My question is

Are there any toe covering that he can put on his toes so it doesn't tear up his feet?

If you got a flat in your tire would you change it let someone else do it? That was the the dilemma I faced today. Today my right rear tire got a flat (screw in it). I know how to change a tire and check the fluids in a vehicle. But I pay for Onstar and I have roadside on my Insurance(didn't need it Onstar paid for it). I waited for maybe 20 minutes and it was changed in no time. I figured I pay for the services might as well use them, right?

We have been having to sync the 1st player remote when the kids get on. It just started this recently. I cant be the batteries we have battery packs and they are charged when needed.

Is this normal? Do other people have to do this too or is this a malfunction? I was under the assumption the 1st player remote always stayed synced to the system.

I had surgery to remove my meniscus in 2006. I had knee pain and locking of the joint .Since the surgery it has been great until recently.

On July 1 I think I reinjured my knee. It has been locking and in pain. The pain isn't constant but it is great when I get it. I know after the surgery the doctor told me that he removed my meniscus so What could be causing it to lock again if there is no meniscus?

I have an appointment at the end of the month with my Orthopedic surgeon but I was wondering. Maybe there is someone out there that has dealt with something like this and can shed some light beforehand.

Thanks!

i have heard tea tree oil added to conditioner will help prevent lice.So i went to the store today and bought leave in conditioner and tea tree oil.

My question is how much tea tree oil do I add to the leave in conditioner?

I went to the doctor today for a U/A for a possible kidney infection but it was negative. He did tell me he was concerned because I was spilling protein in my urine. I had a x ray today too to rule out kidney stones. He told me to come back Friday and if I am still spilling protein I will have to do a 24 hour catch.

I wasnt to worried about the protein because a possibility of kidney stones. Now after reading what spilling protein means I am nervous.

My blood pressure was up in the office too which is a symptom of kidney disease.

My question is what can I do to stop spilling protein in my urine? Is there something I can drink or something I can do to stop it?

I am only 30 I shouldn't be having these problems right?

I was diagnosed with strep Monday and have been on a Z-pack since.

I have had lower back pain like in my kidneys. I was wondering if that is normal? Maybe someone who has went through this knows something. The pains are a shooting pain that come and go. It is either on one side or the other never on both sides at the same time.