|
Platelets
Dear PeppersMommy,
You have already got so much advise that I will only give you some info. Your father's platelets were 3000 - as you have understood much too low. Platelets make the blood clot and the tennis ball sized bruise on his right knee depends on the low platelets. It is not platelets but blood that has pooled in the knee. When my platelets are low I have had bleeding in the joints too - very painful.
Don't they give your father platelet transfusion - as you have seen from other posts he should have platelet transfusions to avoid serious bleeding for example in the brain?
You don't write anything about his white blood cells. How are they?
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
73 yo, dx MDS Interm-1 2006. Transfusion dependent from diagnos. Have received 142 units of blood. Started Thalidomide + Prednisone 2010 with good results.
|