Hi Pam! Welcoem to another Military wife! I am also a military spouse.
I am married to a wonderful Army man. We are stationed at Ft. Lewis-
where are you guys! I was dx'd with ITP while pregnant with my second
child. recovered, and was fine until I got pregnant with my son. Again,
after delivery, my platelets went back up- but not to normal. My last
check they were 120. Funny thing- all three of my children have platelet
problems. My oldest was fine until she FINISHED treatment for ALL- her
bone marrow aspiration looks liek typical ITP according to one of the
oncologists here. my second child was dx'd officially with ITP at the age
of 11 months and never recovered. Now the docs say it isn't ITP since
she plain and simply does not produce and keep platelets that are
produced. She also suffers from anemia, neutropenia, panacyptopenia,
thrombocytopenia, and one other- hemo soemthing or another. She also
suffers from a lot of other medical problems. My son's platelets seem to
now be following the path of my second daughter's. He was dx'd 2 weeks
before he turned 2 and a month before my oldest was dx'd with leukemia.
His were doing fine except for when he was sick. Then about two years
ago his red cell line started crashing. His white count was low
previously, but not too bad. His last platelet count was actually 135-
highest we have seen in 2 years.
I would love to hear more from you as we are also under the "no
treatment" plan.


Margie, Mom to Karissa, dx'd at the age of 7 1/2 with ALL (1/95) and OT
8/25/97 and still dealing with long term effects at the age of 16 to
include ITP; Anna, age 13 with multiple medical problems of her own-
including ITP, and William- (AKA B.J.) 10 also with his own set of
medical problems including a platelet problem, and of course, wife to my
dear hubby, Kris, of 19 years!


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