@DonnerPartyOf404, very sorry to hear. My prayers go out to you & your family. On a related note, my brother has the opposite condition where his body generates too many red blood cells. I forgot the medical terminology but it's a type of blood cancer. No chemo but he has to get blood transfusions every 2-3 months.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell