One thing I forgot to mention from my most recent blood donation: Iron. One of the tests they do is to check to make sure you have enough iron in your blood – this is done with a finger stick and a machine. The tech said that if my iron wasn’t high enough for a double red, I might still be able to do a single donation. We needn’t have worried – my level was 18.6 And the machine only reads up to 19 – beyond that, it just errors out.<\/p>\n
Apparently, I’m Iron Man. Who knew? Guys usually have higher levels than women do and I’ve been inadvertently eating more iron rich foods (dark green veggies, black beans, and chick peas). I was also over due to donate blood, so all that together means I nearly broke the machine.<\/p>\n
Dang it. I totally should have checked to see if magnets would stick to me. That would have been really handy.<\/p>\n
In swimming news…<\/p>\n
I already posted this to facebook, but it’s not official until I blog about it too. I hit 200 miles in the pool for the year today. Well, I guess the official bit was when I updated my log – but the blog is important too.<\/p>\n
I wasn’t especially fast today and I only did a few flip turns and 1\/2 lap of butterfly. And it’s not exactly olympic caliber – but still, not bad for a 40 year old. Or rather, a 40 11\/12 year old. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Back to the pool again tommorrow, but no new goals for the year. Just going to keep going and see how I do.<\/p>\n