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Hi All,

I went to the hemotologist yesterday morning.  Wow lots and lots of info to

digest.  I can say he was very  nice and very personable. He was in the room

with me for over an hour just explaining things.  He did clairify what i had

thought and what alot of you had told me--the platelets were low because they

are trapped in the spleen.  I go back to him on Dec 5th.  He sent me to get yet

more bloodwork yesterday and I have to get an MRI of my liver to check for

cancer,tumors on Dec.1st.  I thought i had already had one but he said that was

a Hida Scan i had done-all I know is i am poked every other day and have a

machine run across me once a week looking for something-lol.  The hemo doc is

calling my liver doc to discuss going ahead and making the appt with the

transplant team at Hopkins.  I guess it is a very long process and he wants to

get started now. My family will also get tested.

Ok here is something I am not understanding,  why do they wait until you are so

darn sick before they do a transplant?  Is it because of the lack of organ

donors?  My little box on my license has been checked since i was around 20. 

The doc did say that if it is a living donor then you dont have to meet all the

guidelines as you do with the national list. Does that mean you dont have to be

as sick?   Ok enough questions from me for now--lol.  My boys are waiting not so

patiently for me to get in the shower so we can go to wal mart.  My 7 year old

is into those little lego things--they drive me nuts, they are so small so i

just dont know how the heck they can hurt so bad when you step on them--lol.

Have a great day!!

Tammy