Pumping Iron September 16, 2005
I learned a valuable lesson last night: One should take an iron tablet completely seperately from food. I took my first iron tablet last night during dinner and felt absolutely awful afterwards. So now I will take my iron tablet just before I go to bed. I’ll take a vitamin C tablet with it to maximise the iron absorption - a tip I picked up while googling to check if queasiness is a side effect of iron tablets.
I’m becoming a big fan of using the internet to gather medical information. When my specialist rang to tell me about my acoustic neuroma I was typing the words into Google while he was still on the phone and the resources I found gave me a much better understanding of what I was in for than anything surgeon had to say. My GP didn’t mention any of the possible side effects of the iron tablets when I saw him yesterday. I found out everything I wanted to know this morning via Google (should have done it yesterday).
Search engines are your friend.
I wonder how people managed to be sick before Google. Or find out about movies before IMDb. Or find out about by breakfast before I had a blog.
This sounds like I am taking the piss. I am not.
My sister created a quiz about herself, and one of the questions was something along the lines of “When faced with illness, who does Kim turn to for advice?” One of the answers being Google, which of course is the correct answer