Pass the Prune Juice, Please

“Good God, what is Katie shouting from the bathroom?”

Doctor Feelgood says I don’t have anemia. He says my condition is probably not caused by a vegetarian diet. Don’t you love the word probably? So reassuring. Despite all that, iron supplements have been prescribed. We’re upping my usual 36mgs a day to a damn-near toxic level of 231mgs.

I could suck the lead out of a cast iron pipe (yes, I really could), gnaw on some juicy steaks, wash it down with a pint of Guinness and still not reach these numbers of mineral madness.

(Doesn’t that sound like a fun date?)

Plus there’s no guarantee my overdosing helps raise a single platelet from the dead. We’re just doing this for fun. For kicks.

“Besides,” Doc says, “it can’t hurt.”




…famous last words.