[Lurk De-Lurk]

My husband has tentative/probable dx of MDS and has been on watch-and-wait status since December. He gets his next blood tests next month. His RBCs, HGB, and HCT have been consistently out of range for years, WBCs intermittently so, and platelets low but have never been caught out of range on a test, though he's had bizarre bruising episodes in the past (i.e., before the oncologist hematologist started following him).

Recently I gave him some ... love bites. This is something we both mutually enjoy occasionally, ahem. So I give him some love bites, on his upper arm. And he immediately bruised up, quickly and severely. So much so, I couldn't believe it was from me. It looked like he'd been bitten days ago. There was a lump underneath, and clear tooth marks, and ugly red and blue.

We got into an argument because I just couldn't believe I'd done that to him then. I've given him similar gentle love bites in the past -- and he's given them to me as well -- and never had this effect. I did not bite him harder than usual. So, for "science," I bit him again, same way, then bit my own arm with exact same pressure. Within seconds the bite on him developed into severe redness and bruising. But on me, it left only a faint redness which was gone within an hour. NOTHING like what it left on him...

This is totally new. Of course, no more love biting in the future...

But my question is... What does this mean for his MDS? Should we get his blood tests moved up? Is this possibly a platelet factor? Or what?