I am IRON Man
Apparently.
It's called Haemochromatosis, where the body stores more and more iron as the years go by, eventually leading to what can be quite dire problems. I'm not there yet, but where a normal reading should be anywhere between 30-300 micrograms of iron per litre of blood, I'm at 962.
What amuses me about this is one of the roleplaying games I'm in is based in a fantasy world where the Fae have 'problems' with my character because he is a Smith, and "the iron gets into your blood". I've played a lot of blacksmiths in my time. Life imitating art?
When it comes to superhero genesis stories though, this one needs more work. I don't do the whole matter/antimatter thing if I come into contact with someone who is anemic, I can't use this stuff as armour (although if it gets severe enough it will make my skin have a leaden-grey appearance), and I don't even point north if you put me on a lilo in a pool.
The 'cure' is cute though. Give blood. Quite a bit in fact, and for the rest of your life. The Red Cross know all about this thing and the blood is apparently very useful to them because of it. Does this make me an anti-vampire? Or is this simply something that could be cured by a good old-fashioned course of leeches? The idea that the side effect of my cure is that someone else gets something good out of it as well does make the whole thing a little easier to accept.
There's still one test to go to be 100% positive, but the Doc's pretty damn sure.
I just hope I don't rust.
It's called Haemochromatosis, where the body stores more and more iron as the years go by, eventually leading to what can be quite dire problems. I'm not there yet, but where a normal reading should be anywhere between 30-300 micrograms of iron per litre of blood, I'm at 962.
What amuses me about this is one of the roleplaying games I'm in is based in a fantasy world where the Fae have 'problems' with my character because he is a Smith, and "the iron gets into your blood". I've played a lot of blacksmiths in my time. Life imitating art?
When it comes to superhero genesis stories though, this one needs more work. I don't do the whole matter/antimatter thing if I come into contact with someone who is anemic, I can't use this stuff as armour (although if it gets severe enough it will make my skin have a leaden-grey appearance), and I don't even point north if you put me on a lilo in a pool.
The 'cure' is cute though. Give blood. Quite a bit in fact, and for the rest of your life. The Red Cross know all about this thing and the blood is apparently very useful to them because of it. Does this make me an anti-vampire? Or is this simply something that could be cured by a good old-fashioned course of leeches? The idea that the side effect of my cure is that someone else gets something good out of it as well does make the whole thing a little easier to accept.
There's still one test to go to be 100% positive, but the Doc's pretty damn sure.
I just hope I don't rust.