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I'm very sorry to hear about your daughter's health problems. Treating a combination of conditions -- severe aplastic anemia, liver failure, and depression -- while preventing further infections, must be quite a challenge for even the best doctors. It may be made even harder by the lack of statistics on (and experience with) patients who have a similar combination of problems. If your daughter has multiple doctors, especially at different treatment centers, make sure they each know all of the treatments she is getting and medications she is taking.
When you went to treatment centers in Ann Arbor and Chicago did you get consultations or second opinions about her severe aplastic anemia? The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and of course the Mayo Clinic are excellent centers with a lot of aplastic anemia experience. So are the University of Chicago, Rush University, Northwestern University, and Loyola University in Chicago. You should keep asking questions until you get answers, including why a transplant might be ruled out (or ruled out for now). You and your daughter deserve to work with doctors you have confidence in, even if they aren't the closest ones to home.
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