| My
son Stephen was diagnosed in June of 2000 with AA. He was
born in 3/99. Prior to the diagnosis he developed abcesses
on his thighs from his immunizations. These abcesses were
drained after one was infected. (kinda odd that he had
abcesses after all three injections) In Jan 00 he had some
very bad bruising and was on Motrin and Bactrim at the
time.
The meds
were stopped and his platelets began to rise. Then in April
his platelets dropped again and it was thought he had ITP.
The rest of his counts crashed in May and he was then
diagnosed with AA. He was treated at Children's in
Pittsburgh with the ATG therapy and has had a slow
response.
He has
been tx free since 4/01 His WBC and Hgb are at the low end
of normal and his plts are around 20. His counts actually
seemed to get better once the Cyclo was stopped. Right now
he is on NuMega and GM-CSF. Stephen is our only child and is
not a BMT canidate at this time
|
