Things are picking up speed and Annie is scheduled to begin her hospitalization this Friday. She has iron-overload from her transfusions so she will also need an MRI but that will occur after her IST (immunosuppressive therapy) with ATG.
For more details about IST see:
http://marrow.org/Patient/Disease_and_Treatment/About_Your_Disease/Aplastic_Anemia/Immunosuppressive_Therapy.aspx
If things go well she'll be discharged after a week and work towards getting strong enough to go back to school. Learning if the procedure helped will take months.
So, to recap, we are asked to call the patient placement center Friday morning and they will let us know when a bed is available. Then the journey down the rabbit hole begins and my next update will be from the hospital.
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