--there are a lot of things which could be causing these abnormalities--autoimmune inflammation or an infection among them--but it would also be prudent for further blood testing to be done along the lines of a peripheral blood smear to examine and type the neutrophils, in particular, because, unfortunately, these type of abnormalities can also be seen in certain types of malignancies. It would be good for these to be ruled out, if they can be (especially as neuropathy is a known accompaniment to several types of blood cancers).

(Anyone else who wants to chime in, feel free. I admit to being somewhat uncomfortable bringing this up, as I do not know the person who Melody is communicating with; it's not someone we're familiar with on the boards her that we could private message. But I do feel it would be irresponsible of me not to bring this possibility up for him to get checked out--I had personal experience, years ago, with a tutoring student who had bruises on her legs that she claimed to be just due to hard soccer games but which I suspected might warrant further investigation, but I did not say anything at the time--turned out she was diagnosed with leukemia down the road, and I'll live with that for the rest of my life. It has made me a lot more paranoid, and maybe I jump the gun too much with suggesting further testing, but I feel better safe than sorry.)