The good news is kids of his age have a well over 80% chance of having an acute ITP. That means ITP is just one-off thing and he will be in remission within 6 months to a year (Most kids recovered within 8 weeks according to our hematologist). Even though your kid fell into that 20% and become chronic, there are still many treatments you could try, such as Promacta, NPlate, etc. In general, kids are very resilient with low platelet. However, when he is under 10K, you need to watch for signs of internal bleeding, such as blood in urine or stool, severe headache, etc. We also devastated for the first few months when our 12 years old son got ITP. But just be calm and ask a lot of questions, life will be back into normal. You could also join a Facebook group, which is a bit more active. Good luck.