Ava and her family live in Glens Falls, New York.
She is supported by her loving family, Mother Julie, who works for Realty USA and Father Stephen Snyder, who works as a Drywall Contractor and big sister Sydney (6).

How to Contact Ava's family:

Phone: (518) 793-6831
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Update

We are into our second year of treatment. The first year was filled with inpatient treatments and about 4-5 clinic visits a week. Ava now gets oral chemo daily, a week of steroids a month, and IV chemo monthly. We go to AMC every other week. She gets physical and speech therapy twice a week. I think the first year was actually easier since we were so busy I didn’t have too much time to think of what was really happening. Now I have realized how sick Ava really is. We won’t know until her treatment is over in June of 2010 whether it worked or not. Then the next 5 years is the highest chance that the leukemia comes back. We try to stay positive but every time she falls or gets a cut it scares us. The Doctor told us that the hard part of treating this illness is that if her counts are down, a simple hang nail could kill her. She is handling the treatment well, and we feel that that is a good sign. She has good weeks and bad but we keep on going and deal with the day.

We try not to take anything for granted, she is such a gift to our family. Her strength and bravery keeps us going. We try the best we can to give her a normal childhood, but normal she will never know. No child should have to go through this.