MDS: Stability, Please

Latest blood count: platelets 79,000.

This is:

• up from last week
• normal progress and encouraging, according to Dr. Onco
• still below the magic "you can do any activity you want" 100,000 mark, as defined by Dr. MDS
• thus, still discouraging to me
• and confusing to me—why were we once at 145,000+ and now hovering so much lower?

To answer the last point, it could be that the Procrid I was given, which stimulates bone marrow activity, had spiked the count. But, Dr. O declared that I don't need Procrid right now.

Even so, this count turmoil unnerves me a bit. I feel like a TV doctor watching a person's ECG or EKG read-out spike and dive repeatedly, and I don't like it. I'm looking for stability.

Then again, who isn't?