Weei/nesn Jimmy Fund Radio-telethon

OMF - Ava Santos, 7, Type B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Windham, NH with her parents, Marie and Kevin 8-21-18

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Ava began to complain of ear pain, and when her family brought her to the doctor, they diagnosed her with an ear infection and prescribed amoxicillin. After taking the amoxicillin, Ava broke out from head-to-toe in purple spots, and it is unknown to this day if she is allergic to amoxicillin or if was the leukemia.Ava began complaining about throat pain, which led them back to the doctor for another prescription—this time it was determined it was strep throat. A few days after she started taking the clindamycin, Ava began having leg pain which doctors said could be from strep.The pain continued and finally in March 2016, within hours of arriving at the ER, Ava and her family were informed that she had leukemia.After Ava's diagnosis, she was in the hospital for 2 months. In May 2016, she began treatment at the Jimmy Fund Clinic, which would last for the next two years. Ava had weekly chemotherapy treatments administered through her port, as well as oral chemotherapy drugs and steroids at home. Ava had her last