Wife's platelets or up for first time sense this all started she had dropped to 34000 and stayed there for two weeks today it is up to 40000. Ya! I hope this means that the Prednasone has stopped the attack on her red blood cells by her autoimmune system. She has one more week of Prednasone than the hope is she can start on a drug that is suppose to help her body repair the bone marrow if it can.

The numbers or a way of judging whether things or working right. In my wife's case her first sigh was low Hemoglobin (red blood cell) and was refused by blood bank. When she first went to Dr for this they ran some simple tests found nothing sent her home. Than she started bruising easy and had swollen angles with bruises around angles red spots like rashes on angles again no injury so no reason for this. Red rash was (Bleeding) She also had night sweets which we wrote off as heat flashes that just won't quit. That's when I told her I was scared for her and asked she see Dr again. This time her platelets where down also to 51000 Should be 150000 to 450000. These or what cause clotting in the blood so reason to be concerned. Her MD sent her to a Blood specialist at the cancer center. There they repeated the blood test and ran bone marrow bi Platelets where 47000. Than a week latter it was down to 34000 at around 20000 to 15000 they have to transfer platelets to keep you from bleed for no reason at all. These number tell Dr that they need to look for a cause as this can be life threatening. There can be lots of reasons. In wife case her autoimmune system was attacking her red blood cells. So reason for low red cell and platelet numbers, her monocyclic or one of the white blood cell was very high meaning her autoimmune system was unbalanced. Anyway she was Dx with early stage CMML even though the Dr latter told us that her treatment was to prevent it from becoming full blown CMML or AML. If she had not gone to Dr when I asked it could of been much worse. Most of us receive early warning that something is wrong but we play it down as my wife wanted to do and still does if asked how she is doing. That does not make them bad or wrong it is normal, it will go away and most of the time it does. We all go though life with a pain that scares us and must of the time it is nothing and after it stops hurting it feels better and is forgotten even when it comes back over and over. I have a friend that lived with pain that would of put most people down. He was busted up very badly by a drunk driver who drove into back of his stopped car at 90 MPH. When I was working with him I would hear him say,"boy that will feel better when it quits hurting." I know what that meant and we would both LOL and go on. He had learned a way to handle the pain and didn't let it effect his life. He retired and bought a real large motor home and wife and him or gone all the time.

Update new round of Bloodwork today and platelets or at all time low after going up to 40000 for two weeks it dropped to 32000. She was suppose to go in for Chemo end of this week but we found a new articled about side effects on chemo Rituxan (Tituixmab) that scared us into not going there. Wife canceled her round of chemo and now has a meeting with Dr on the 19th to go over which med or chemo to us. Address for article from April this year is.

http://wwwea.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150657.php

Update: Yesterday after funeral service for her mom my wife gave me a scare. Someone said to me your wife is turning red. I went over to check on her and her neck, face and arms where red. I was afraid she was bleeding under the skin. But I have seen these bleed spots before on her angle and this was different not as red. She has been having problems controlling her body temp and almost always says she feels hot even when I'm cold. I realized it was heat related and told her to come set down and cool off. With in 10 min of setting down her color began to return. It happened again today after church but not as bad. Tonight we went shopping and she had a little of this on the back of her neck. She said she was feeling hot and had took off her coat and it didn't get any worse. We are going to Omaha tomorrow for second opinion so I well ask about this if she does not. Has anyone else had this happen? She is always kicking off the covers now and that use to be me. She does have some new bleed spots but they are very small and only three of them that I have seen.

Nothing new to report but thought I would type what is on plake that I bought wife for Christmas it hangs on wall in dining room.

I hold everything when I hold you in my arms.