Please pray for my friend’s daughter Bethany. They are going to start the treatment for her Aplastic Anemia on Monday. She will be in the hospital for 5 days while they nuke her T cells with a treatment called ATG (Anti-Thymocyte Globulin). Her T cells are the ones killing her bone marrow, so knocking them out will give her bone marrow the chance to start growing again.

After she goes home, she will start on the next stage of treatment: an immune suppression medication to limit T cell activity (Cyclosporine) and a medication which tells her bone marrow stem cells to grow (Promacta). Those can be taken at home. (Also, for the first month she’ll be severely immune compromised, so she’ll be taking preventative antibiotics and etc).

If all goes well, her bone marrow should start re-growing. That means her blood counts should start getting better and she might no longer need blood transfusions in as short a time as 4-6 weeks.

Please pray that her reaction to the ATG is on the weaker end (it gives you variable amounts of serum sickness). Also that the drug treatments do what they are intended to do. Pray that she doesn’t get any infections while in the hospital, or while she is immune compromised afterwards.

Sorry for the lengthy request...thank you for praying!