Hi Chirley!
As Marlene said MDS patients with their dysplastic (malshaped) blood cells have more problems with dysfunctional cells.
http://www.cpsa.ab.ca/Libraries/Pro_...o_critique.pdf
I think you have been lucky living during long periods hardly without neutrophils at all - most MDS patients should have got severe perhaps fatal infections.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A