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Cameron111,
There are two reasons to assume that your friend will live an average lifespan:
1. What we know: Her aplastic anemia was a problem with her bone marrow. It couldn't make the blood cells we all need to survive. During her transplant she got her sister's "good" bone marrow, which replaced her own "bad" bone marrow. Since she ended up with bone marrow that worked, it really is a cure. Since she had her transplant as a young child, she's in the group that (statistically) has the fewest side effects, and if there any residual health issues, such as concerns about future fertility, she presumably already knows about them. After a transplant, the primary concern for aplastic anemia patients isn't aplastic anemia, but getting some type of cancer, but the chances of that get smaller and smaller the longer it's been since the transplant. Being a decade past the transplant without problems is a great sign that all is well and stay that way.
2. What we don't know: As others have said above, none of us knows what lies ahead, so we might as well assume the best. Since your friend was cured of aplastic anemia, there's no reason to asume that she will have problems in the future related to her aplastic anemia in childhood. And there are plenty of reasons to assume that her future is as bright as her sister's, or yours for that matter, since all of you have properly functioning bone marrow!
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