Journey leads to 'better life' - for cerebral palsy patient after stem cell therapy
Avaia looks at people's faces.
That's the biggest difference her mother has noticed since the community rallied to send the two-year-old to Germany for special bone marrow stem cell treatment.
She had trouble paying attention before. Her eyes would wander constantly. Lights attracted her attention but not her focus.
"Since we've been back, she's taking time to look at things, she's focusing a lot better, even on people's faces," Ashley DiMarco said.
"If she's interested in it, it could be a toy, a person, anything, she just really takes her time to focus on what it is. She does take her breaks, but she's doing so much better. She is much more alert."
Avaia has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy. She is unable to walk, talk or communicate, and eats through a feeding tube.
Her parents heard about the treatment at a private clinic, XCell-Center in Dus…