On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:00:26 -0500, "Opus" wrote:


"BJ Conner" wrote in message
roups.com...
Donating a pint supposedly adds 2 weeks to your life span. Me build up
iron in their bodies. Women don't build up because they get rid of
blood regularly. The iron increases your risk of heat attacks etc.
And you get free cookies.

A former employer of mine has a rare disease where he has to have monthly
blood lettings, because of the iron in is blood. It took a while before the
right doctor figured it out. He would get very weak and pass out. Got to
the point he had to quit work for a while.

His family doctor told him he was drinking too much alcohol. He told the
doctor that he didn't drink. The doc then told him had drank so much over
his lifetime that he had damaged his liver. He then told the doctor that he
had never had a drink in his life. He finally found a doctor at Duke Univ.
who diagnosed he illness and got him straightened out.

Op


I bet it was Hemochromatosis.

/daytripper