Meet Annaleigh Whitfield

Hey. My name is AnnaLeigh Whitfield. I am 5 years old. I love to sing, laugh, play outside and play with my kitty, Bug. My daddy is Jody Whitfield of Seneca, SC and my mommy is Dalynda Brown of Anderson, SC, who both love me very much.

In April of this year, I was diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/aplastic/

Aplastic Anemia is a bone marrow disease in which my own immune system starts attacking my bone marrow causing the bone marrow not to be able to produce blood or platelets. So I have to have blood and platelet transfusions every 10-14 days. I cannot do a lot things many normal 5 year old little girls do because my immune system is compromised; but my Daddy seems to think I am tolerating my restrictions well. I have had little results to chemotherapy. Now I am in search of a bone marrow transplant. This is my only hope. Will you please help me?

AnnaLeigh along with her family traveled to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC this past week and received some devastating news as they met with the transplant doctor. The transplant team at this point can only offer Annleigh an experimental half match. The odds of the half match working, which would come from AnnaLeigh's mama Dalynda, is 30% and very risky. If the half match is not done, then AnnaLeigh is only given a year to a year and half to live. 

If a perfect match is found AnnaLeigh's chances go from 30% to 85%! Let's be the cure!

http://bethematch.org/Support-the-Cause/Donate-bone-marrow/Join-the-marrow-registry/

When it comes in the mail, all you have to do is swab the inside of your cheek and slip it right back in the mail (5 seconds max to save a life).

Please register with BE THE MATCH for Annaleigh! You could very well be the one that saves her life!