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Jo Ann Miller Watson Updates May 5, 2001 Thought I'd just write and tell you what the Dr. told me Wed. I went to Dr. Nair. He's the Dr. I had at Baptist in Little Rock. He's a blood and cancer dr. He says that with my iron, or rather for me I don't have any iron that I have Chronic iron deficiency anemia, this means my body will not retain iron. With the blood he says I have myelodysplastic syndrome which means my bone marrow does not make enough blood to keep a body going. I went to these Doctors for years in which they knew I didn't have any iron and they gave me iron pills which this Doctor says for me was like taking sugar pills for all the good they did me. He gave me a PINT of iron through IV. I have to go back this coming week for another one. With the blood he says that it is a defect in the bone marrow that causes it not to make enough blood. That my blood was seven and it is suppose to be between 13 and 15. He says this is what made me pass out and then when I hit the floor on my chest it caused my lungs to start filling up with fluid and with that and the trauma to my body from such a hard fall face down caused the heart attack. Two and a half years ago I went to the cancer center at St. Mary's. She did a bone marrow test. She acted to me like there was nothing wrong but this Doctor says in her notes she knew I had this syndrome. He or I either one understand why she didn't tell me. He says if she had of started treating me for it then this wouldn't have happen and I would have been feeling a lot better now. All she did was give me iron pills. According to her files she also knew I didn't have any iron. For the blood he's giving me shots, he told me what they're called but I forgot. They are suppose to boost the bone marrow and make it start making more blood so now my blood count should start going up. They gave me two pints of blood but my blood count is still just at 10. The IV's and shots will have to be had the rest of my life but you do what you have to do. Well, that's all the writing I can set here for right now, my backs yelling! LOVE YA ALL, JO ANN ______________________________________________ Apr 18, 2001 About
2
weeks
again
JoAnn
Miller,
Lloyd
and
Mildred
Knight
Miller's
daughter
and
Joe
Miller's
twin
sister,
passed
out
and
hit
her
head
on
the
hard
floor.
A
911
ambulance
was
dispatched
and
she
was
taken
to
the
hospital
in
critical
condition.
Her
blood
pressure
was
about
80
over
40
and
she
was
given
2
pints
of
blood.
The
next
day
she
had
a
heart
attack
and
was
stabilized
by
using
electric
shock
to
the
chest.
The
doctors
gave
her
a
50-50
chance
of
living.
She
was
moved
from
St.
Mary's
Hospital
in
Russellville,
Arkansas
to
Baptist
Medical
Center
in
Little
Rock,
Arkansas
where
she
was
placed
in
Cardiac
Intensive
Care
Unit.
She
stayed
there
for
about
5
days
and
then
she
was
moved
to
a
hospital
Room.
On
April
15,
2001
she
was
released
from
the
hospital.
She
is
still
in
a
very
sick
condition
and
they
need
to
find
out
how
she
is
losing
blood. |
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