Be his record-keeper too...
One of the most useful things you can do for/with him is to keep an ongoing record of the details of all transfusions - temps, blood pressures, donated date, volume, pre-meds, reactions if any, CBCs etc.
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Ric: Low-risk MDS (blasts <4%); 4 cycles Revlimid no positive response; PRBC transfusion dependent; so far, 392'units' over 8 3/4 years; BMB #4 (15/04/01) shows evolution to AML (blasts 20-30% ) 47,XY,del(5) (q22q35),+21[24][cp24]/46,XY(1).
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