Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) Support Group

My five year old daughter got really sick after taking 8 shots of cytarabine. She spend 32 days at two different hospitals in Virginia. None of the doctors could give me straight answer as to what caused her to get so sick. All of them were really shocked and said that they had never seen anything like that. At the end my daughter got better but I still don't know what was the cause. Her chemo doctor told me that she was allergic to cytarabine. I don't know about that... this wasn't the first time she had taken cytarabine. Recently I heard about China's leukemia drug recall and I was wondering if those drugs were the same ones my baby was taking. I researched and called and found out that US doesn't import drugs from China. BUT..... I researched the company who supplies those drugs to my daughters hospital and found a link to China. That company is part of another one who is part of another bigger one located in Germany and that company deals with the one in China. I tried getting a lawyer to help me but since I am not rich there is nothing they can do for me. I don't want to give up but without any other help I am not able to continue to find the truth. Does anyone has any suggestions or links to what I should do or who should I talk to next?
BTW I wrote to several different newspapers all over the country and I also wrote to TV news but I got no replies from there either. Thank you for any comment
Posted on 10/21/07, 05:10 pm