I am a nurse AND a cancer patient who has to keep tabs on my blood counts all the time. A platelet count that low should be of concern to your doctor. Do you take any kind of blood thinners or daily aspirin? There could be many reasons to cause a low count. I would specifically ask your doctor abou...

I am SO glad to hear about someone else who loves pet rats! I used to get a lot of teasing about my "babies", but it's because people kept thinking of them like "sewer rats". They're nothing like those! They are very social, loving little critters who like to play and get scratc...

I have been on the MB since almost the very beginning in 2003. I have come and gone due to drama from years back, lack of time on the computer with work and family and now health issues. I do check in as much as I can but don't always post. I've often wondered what happened to a lot of the gals fro...

I used scraprat because I scrap and I used to have wonderful little pet rats, I called my "babies". So scrap + rat and voila, scraprat! Unfortunately we don't have babies any more but we had 31 different ones over a 10 year period (and that doesn't count the other 11 we had from litters w...

I have been a registered nurse for 35 years, 33 of those years as a pediatric nurse. I worked at Shriners Burns Hospital for Children in Cincinnati for 22-1/2 years. The past 4 years I've been a phone triage nurse at a pediatricians' office. The senior doc was my son's pediatrician 30 years ago! I ...

I appreciate all of Brandon's hard work here. It can't be easy trying to please everyone! I do think there needs to be better definition between the posts, quotes, etc. Everything seems to run together. I prefer the avatars on the left also. Will we have color choices (green) again? What about colo...