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Tamir,
I sure hope it's not MDS. Secondary MDS is generally harder to to treat than de novo MDS. Let's hope the cause of your neutropenia can be found and is something much more easily treated.
Chemo and radiation are known as possible causes for secondary MDS and I can't think of a reason that the chemo and radiation for a transplant wold be excluded. Then again, I'm not a doctor so I'm just speculating that the possibility is there, unlikely as it may seem. If your peripheral blood looks OK other than white count, are they talking about doing a bone marrow biopsy to check your marrow? It's hard to rule out MDS without one.
Also, if Gleevec no longer seems to have produced the neutropenia will you be going back on it for GVHD?
For the record, Ruth had all three counts low at diagnosis. She hadn't been having infections, and her bruising and fatigue had been symptoms for many months, so she apparently didn't have a low white counts before she also had low platelets and a low red cell count.
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