Terrible news - Michael Lohberg, the coach of Dara Torres, will not be with her in China. He is now at NIH, in Bethesda, being treated aggressively for Aplastic Anemia.

This is an awful disease. The bone marrow basically shuts down and no longer produces blood cells. Without treatment death can occur within 2 weeks.

He is receiving transfusions right now. They won't allow him to shave because his platelet count is so low, if he even nicked himself he could bleed out.