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My dad -76, diagnosed with MDS RARS in 2006. Visits oncologist yearly and knock on wood, no treatment received for disease to date.

He is a heart patient, quad bypass in 2000 and pacemaker in 2001. In recent weeks he complained of minor chest pains albeit short lived when he is on the treadmill. He stops, waits for them to stop and starts his exercise program again.
< insert me wanting to hit him with a wet noodle here >

I tell cardiologist... he orders stress test and it shows significant ischemia in one artery. He has a heart cath yesterday and we went in thinking he was going to get a stent.

Cardio doc is amazed that his bypass grafts from 16 years ago are so "pristine". He could find NO evidence of any blocked arteries. There was nothing for him to stent. GREAT NEWS. No plaque whatsoever. Stress test was a false positive or somehow picked up something related to low oxygen from anemia.

But....still no answer as to why the chest pain experience while on the treadmill (exertion). Cardio doc says we need to take it up with the oncologist as the "plumbing" is darn near perfect.

Next oncologist appt. is in October. Do we wait? Does he just stop his new found exercise routine? He does NOT want any more meds (heart currently) nor does he want to start transfusions. His numbers have remained stagnant for 10 years. Only reds affected. Oncologists says with these numbers and for as great as dad expresses he feels that he personally would not want to "rock the boat".
RBC- 2.94
HGB- 10.4
HCT - 31.4%

Any ideas? I am leaning towards getting in with the oncologist sooner but it might be a hard sell for dad who is now in recovery mode with a sort of time-out for a week after yesterdays procedure.....which apparently he didn't need!