hidden cause of anemia

Medical detective: Anemia, Dr. Denton Cooley Busted! It’s real, just listen to the story: Don is 85 year old man, who visited me for finding out the reason for Iron Deficiency Anemia. Anemia means low blood, Anemia is not one disease but many diseases. His specific type was Iron Deficiency Anemia, meaning that he is chronically losing iron from his blood. This means he had to have a mystery bleeding somewhere internally in his body, most common being in the GI or Gastrointestinal Tract. He had had this anemia for a good while and his primary care physicians had tried with iron as a band aid but he continued to be anemic and that is why he was sent to me so we could unmask his hidden bleeding. The cause could be hidden anywhere  in this GI tract, from stomach to small intestine to colon and each of these being vast organs, the story could be complicated and challenging. It could be from Peptic ulcer in the stomach to small bleeding vessels deep in the crevices of small intestine which is a twenty two feet long organ to colon cancer Don was born and brought up in Texas. Don had a serene look in his face, he is a man who is lean and thin still muscular even in this age, his dressing was clean cut, face was clean shaved and his gait had no hint of hesitancy totally unburdened by age.