I'm grateful that my rheumie is BIG enough to let me know that he isn't comfortable with where things are going and I'll CERTAINLY agree to the hematologist if he thinks I need it. We'll know for sure Monday when he gets the new bloodwork. He wants to know if it is a lab fluke first. He is one of those young fellows that you just want to hug and say "don't worry,..it'll be o.k." because he is so concerned about what is happening to me. He says he likes me as a patient because I'm an "interesting" one. Not sure if that's a compliment or not and I really wish I wasn't interesting.

But I'm still not sure what the hematologist would be looking for unless it is malasorption. And how does he tell that? I thought that would be in the field of the Gastro doctor.

It just seems as if I'm falling all to pieces in such a short time. Will there be dust left of me when this is over?

Thanks Bonnie and Dahlek. I learned some things from both of you.
Billye