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War on Me…

Posted on the 02 April 2015 by Drowqueen @theburnedhand
War on me…The Burned Hand

I suspect that if I were to take the posts about my food issues and put them together in a book, it would be helpful to many people. I will briefly try to explain what has happened to my body as best I understand it. When I was born, I was born with the C282y gene that the Irish people needed. It not being the potato famine and all that, it continues to function in the way it would have by holding onto iron. Basically, it is thought that this protein functions to regulate iron absorption, and mine is "broken" so to speak. Luckily, the porphyria cutanea tarda kicked in and gave me blisters all over and turned my urine dark. Warning! Warning! Anyway, you can see other posts about all that. Just use the tag cloud and click on hard to read words. ha.

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