Baby with Rare Blood Disease Seeks Bone Marrow Donor: 'Whatever It Takes to Save Her,' Says Mom
Photo: Courtesy of Anessa Haden Anessa Haden says she was “shocked” to learn that her bubbly daughter True, then only 6 months old, had congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (CAMT), a congenital blood disorder that attacks the body’s bone marrow and severely affects its clotting functions. The diagnosis came after True rolled off of the couch in her family’s Huntsville, Alabama home and developed a brain bleed. As doctors were examining True at a hospital, they noticed she had a dangerously low platelet count, and ordered her to start receiving platelet transfusions twice a week....