How does having MDS change my daily life?

How does having MDS change my daily life? It depends on how it affects you. So if it makes your red blood cells low where you are anemic and you're fatigued, then it's obviously going to affect how you live your daily life. If you are immunocompromised, right, and there's a pandemic around, well, you are going to be more susceptible to that than other people. And so that might affect where you can go and what you can do. I think with like thrombocytopenia or platelets being low, you know, you don't, if you're susceptible to bleeding, you're not going to do something like go parachuting or go rock climbing or like something where, you know, if you get trauma and you start to bleed, it's going to be a big problem. So I think it just depends on what type of blood is, cells are low and how that might affect you. But in general, I think the biggest thing people have is anemia and that leads to fatigue. And that's, I think, the most common symptom that we deal with. Our goal is to make MDS not affect your life at all and to be treated and for one, and for a patient with MDS to live their life normally. However, to get to that goal, we need a lot of help. It can affect one's life by an increased amount of fatigue and low energy, which is usually the main symptom most patients with MDS have. That's because most patients with MDS have anemia, which is a low red blood cell count and a lower ability for their body to get oxygen to the, to the tissues in their body from their blood. Other symptoms include easy bruising and bleeding. So with MDS, one has to be careful about doing contact sports and other physical activities if their platelets are low. And then some patients with MDS also can be susceptible to infections if they have a lower white blood cell count.