Thanks for all that. They are meant to stay with us and do keep up on their boosters. We can do Covid protocols, keep our distance, and they will have a separate ensuite room.

He's been anemic his whole life and his mother had "a blood disease" that she finally died with in 2009. In the IWMF literature they report that some percentage of WM patients have a first degree relative who had it.

He was getting more & more fatigued and when he had bloods done for a prostate ablation the IgM spike was profound. He'd been having nose bleeds, bruising, and increasing foot neuropathy (which we now understand was from the disease progression).

The hematologist ok'd the prostate procedure, he got 4 units of blood, and the nosebleeds and bruising have stopped.

Back in the early 2000s when his mother in NL had whatever she had, she was given transfusions and Aranesp, which seemed to work for her some.