Before work this morning
May. 1st, 2006 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI decided to walk to work this morning; it was cool and not yet raining, perfect walking weather. Walking the whole way is why I found half of a robin's blue eggshell, too fragile to carry to work, but lovely to have seen. And noticed that the produce place on the corner of Charles St. (near the T stop) has wild ramps! I've never seen them before, and I've heard so much about them that I'm debating going back to buy some later, despite the wild-mushroom-level price ($20/lb). And discovered that there's an espaliered tree (the leaves make me think it might be peach) under a bay window of a townhouse on Comm Ave.
I went to give blood this morning, just 8 weeks after the last donation. I was rejected for low hematocrit (percent of blood that is oxygen-carrying red blood cells); the minimum is 38%; I had 37%. The nurse mentioned that some women take a bit longer than 8 weeks to recover from blood donation, so if there's a drive somewhere convenient in a couple of weeks, I might try for that. In the meantime, I should eat high iron foods (and here I thought I was eating a lot of meat and greens already). The list they gave me also included beans, apricots, raisins, and molasses, with the suggestion to eat vitamin C-rich foods at the same time, to increase absorption of iron (and avoid drinking tea with meals, since the tannins decrease the absorption of iron). Interesting.
And now to proof a document in some language I don't speak.
I went to give blood this morning, just 8 weeks after the last donation. I was rejected for low hematocrit (percent of blood that is oxygen-carrying red blood cells); the minimum is 38%; I had 37%. The nurse mentioned that some women take a bit longer than 8 weeks to recover from blood donation, so if there's a drive somewhere convenient in a couple of weeks, I might try for that. In the meantime, I should eat high iron foods (and here I thought I was eating a lot of meat and greens already). The list they gave me also included beans, apricots, raisins, and molasses, with the suggestion to eat vitamin C-rich foods at the same time, to increase absorption of iron (and avoid drinking tea with meals, since the tannins decrease the absorption of iron). Interesting.
And now to proof a document in some language I don't speak.