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 That is all not so bad now, it is just that there are not enough red cells in the blood, the patient is a bit anaemic. The doctor is nice and writes a prescription for iron tablets. There is a vision of chewing rusty nails, but this has no bearing upon reality.

This morning, read the news early. Thousands of dead Ukrainians and nearly ten thousand dead Russians. In the space of few weeks. And read that the population of Mariupol has been decimated and hospitals destroyed in Kiev. There is no argument to justify this, all of Mariupol has been flattened by artillery. It is unbearable, this barbarity. Unimaginable for one who has spent his whole live in a peaceful civil society.

Go for a walk up the hill with the wife, she tires quickly.

And then go to the apothecary and pay for the prescription

There is "Eisen(II)-glycin-sulfat-Komplex" written on the package.

This does not sound like rusty nails. But perhaps it will help. And then read the news on the newspaper left in the hallway by the tenant. Accaunts of more barbarity therein, and news ofthousands of women and children fleeing the country for the relative security of the rest of Europe.