Sounds like good news on the elbow.
Not so good on the hemoglobin count. Does your system respond to iron pills? Has anybody found out why your system isn't picking it up from your diet? Do you know if a dietary change will help? Have they determined where it's all going yet? Have them take care of your heart: it'll want to enlarge in an attempt to get what hemoglobin it has to work with to the various body parts. (Ask me how I know this one). It can enlarge itself right into a heartattack due to insuffuciency./trying so hard to get everything oxygenated. Be sure they're watching it.
 

Well, it's a start. Hope those results show up soon.
Might want to try to add kale, cabbage, broccoli and/or beets (and that spinach) to the diet, rather than overload on the heavier red meat thing. If previous tests have shown that iron pills improve the count (a "plastic" response" a good thing), then there's systemic absorption. Retention is the thing they're after then. I'd be interested (idly curious) to hear what the special genetic testing shows.

I moved to Virginia in August and still haven't replaced my computer, haven't checked in for months,
a quick note from the phone to say I'm alive and hope everyone else is well. Caught up on Joe's saga, sending good wishes for a resolution to the anemia.

Thank you!

Colonoscopy and endoscopy this afternoon.  Prep didn't go as planned, and I hope he can still do the procedure.  Damned solution is a 2-part solution, part 1 is "mango flavored" and I don't like mangos, and it wasn't down more than a half-hour when it came back up.  The second part tastes much better, but I still get queasy, but it stayed down.  I just want to get this out of the way, I haven't had solid food since Saturday evening.