What we wouldn’t give to just fast forward to the end of this chapter in our family book…but we have been faced with one of the worst battles a family has to fight through.

 

Ava is 14 years old. She has a beautiful soul with a smile and giggle that could make your heart burst. She is so sweet, so kind, empathetic, and loving. She is a beautiful teenager who loves her family, her beautiful long hair, her phone, and babies (she wants to have 5 babies when she grows up). Ava has a twin named Ana and they are inseparable.

 

After what seems like an eternity of doctors appointments, we are now in Rochester, MN and the amazing doctors at Mayo Clinic have found non-operative and extensive tumors in Ava’s brain. After a brain surgery to biopsy tissue, we wait for the official word. The doctors already said that big word that NO ONE wants to hear…the word that feels impossible to type. From there we figure out what our new normal looks like while we get Ava better as we navigate appointments with Oncologists, Neurologists and more.

 

We are overwhelmed and scared, but, we are ready to go to the ends of the earth to heal Ava. There is nothing we won’t do.

 

We are only a week into this and everyone has been so amazing. We are surrounded by angels.

 

People ask what they can do to help and the truth is we need your prayers, we need you to send love and light and all of the good energy our way. We need good news and we need to hear the stories with the good endings. As equally important as receiving that loving & healing energy is, we need donations to help ease the financial burden that goes along with helping our sweet Ava fight this.

(Sasha Quijano-Edwards is Ava’s mother and is the beneficiary of this Go Fund Me.  Donations made at this time will cover a multitude of things from paying medical bills and all of the expenses that come along with getting Ava better—we are currently doctoring 10-12 hours away from our home in North Dakota. Lodging and food is a big expense at this time until we know where we will be for her doctoring.  We are also finding that we need so many new medical items for Ava including a wheelchair, wedge pillow so she upright when laying down, and more.)

THIS IS THE ONLY GO FUND ME SET UP FOR AVA. The others are scams.