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Thank you Lisa and Hopeful for your informative replies. I agree that the ANC is probably the most worrisome thing at the moment. Classes are scheduled to start on Wednesday at UW but she went to school for over a year on cyclosporine after the first ATG treatment. It's not fun but it can be done. She can't, however, continue if she has to repeat the ATG. She'll have to withdraw from school and come home for treatment. She has two quarters left (UW is a 3-quarter per year system) so we can potentially get her treated during one quarter and she can still graduate this spring (assuming a positive response to ATG). I think the doctor thinks we are foolish to even try to consider school in her treatment plan, but killing a kid's dream doesn't do good things for them as a patient. When the patient is an adult it gets even more tricky. Our prayer is that the numbers start to turn around this week. If not, we'll pray for wisdom as to how to help her deal with this stupid disease without totally derailing her life.
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