I asked my boss about anemia yesterday. She's a Health Manager. She did give me a bit of a lecture when I told her about my eating habits (and now she is onto me about skipping meals and how working through lunch since I'm only there for 5 hours - 9-2 - is so convenient). Mostly she told me to take supplements and eat meals. Oh, and she offered to call in the dietician to talk to me.

Thanks for the information and suggestions. CCL, in the past I have not been particularly sensitive to things like iron supplements. I was anemic once when I was pregnant and had to take iron, but I didn't have any symptoms then, and I tolerated it just fine. I have some multivitamins specially designed for vegetarians, and they have 100% of the RDA of iron in them, but I stopped taking them about September, I think. Just out of orneryness. I started taking them again starting Wednesday night, and I went to bed at a fairly decent hour last night, and slept in this morning. I'm still in p.j.'s and it's almost noon, but I've been reading for a while, and just lounging around. I feel quite a bit better than yesterday, but I have to go get hay this afternoon. We'll see how that goes.

Emmy, that's a nice article. I told Angela I would make an appointment and do the blood test thing. I even like having blood drawn, but I'm afraid of just being told to eat meat, so I'm avoiding that. If I can't get it worked out on my own I might have to consider it again. I don't like doctors much.

I am wondering how long it should take to resolve the problem if I'm a good girl and take my vitamins.

Oh, and I got the new schedule for my residential treatment job yesterday. I had been trying to get at least alternate Sundays off. They gave me alternate Sunday mornings, but put me on every Sunday swing shift. I said I didn't want to work that much, but maybe could do alternate Sunday swing shifts. The schedule as it was had me working 44 hours one week and 51 on alternate weeks, with both jobs together. Well, the new schedule has me off of Sunday swing shift entirely, but I'm on Wednesday graveyards every week. And I have both jobs on Thursday, so unless I can change something I would work all night, have an hour to get to the other job, work 5 hours, have an hour to get back to the first one, and work until 10:30. GRRR. It would also be 46 and 53 hours per week. I can probably switch which day I work at Head Start so that I don't have to be running back and forth for 24 hours straight like that. At least I will have some Sundays off now.