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Old Thu Aug 13, 2015, 07:58 PM
Maura R Maura R is offline
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My mom was diagnosed today with MDS

Hello everyone, I recently put up a post about my mom being diagnosed with MDS...well today we got the final diagnosis. She has RAEB II with blasts at 15 to 18%.
She is 81 years old, the doctor gave us our options, and we decided to not do the IV therapy..just going to monitor her blood counts from here and blood transfusions when needed. The doctor felt her numbers were somewhat stable at this point so no transfusion this week. She will receive the Nupigen shot on a weekly basis.
Here are her numbers as of today..
WBC 2.9, LVM 1.2,MID 0.8, GRA 0.8, LYM%42.5, MID% 28.2, GRA% 29.3, RBC 3.51, HGB 11.4, HCT 35.1, MCV 100.1 MCH 32.5, MCHC 32.5, RDW13.4,PLT 36
MPV 8.4
One of the hardest decisions of our lives, but we want mom to have QOL.
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