A 12-year-old girl squeezed her parents’ hands twice to let them know she loved them after a serious brain tumor took away her ability to speak.
Ava Grace Lynch was diagnosed with a brain tumor in October last year and tragically passed away on March 20.
Moments before her death, Ava spelled out a question on her alphabet board, which she began using when she lost her voice.
He asked his parents where his brothers were. Ten minutes later, ‘little Ava’ wrote her last message: ‘How long?’
Once Ava’s older siblings, Charlie, Harry and Helena, arrived at their home in Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Ava took each of their hands, squeezed them twice, and breathed her last breath.
Ava Grace Lynch (pictured) died of an aggressive brain tumor while surrounded by her family on March 20.
“You could tell she was so relieved that they were there and she knew they were there,” said Ava’s mother, Christina. The advertiser On Wednesday.
Ava’s brain tumor diagnosis came shortly after she suffered a Covid attack, leading her parents to believe she may have been suffering from long Covid.
However, the 12-year-old’s teacher expressed concern to her parents after noticing that her handwriting was strange.
Multiple tests and scans revealed the family’s worst nightmare: Ava had been living with a brain tumor.
“That was probably the most devastating moment of our lives,” said his father, Darren.
Ava had a positive response to radiotherapy and was able to make important school memories with her friends before she died, including her Year Six graduation and Year Seven school camp.
The little girl also made precious memories with her family, including a holiday to Hamilton Island, a big Christmas with her extended family and a visit to Nanna Lynch in Streaky Bay on the state’s central coast.
Her parents said they still receive messages from grieving friends writing ‘Ava, I will continue to message you’ and ‘We miss you so much.’
Ava (pictured) couldn’t speak due to her tumor, so she spent her final moments squeezing her family’s hands to let them know she loves them.
Those devastated friends from Loreto College, in Adelaide’s east, released balloons in Ava’s favorite colours, pink and green, on the day of her funeral.
Children lined William St in Norwood and threw rose petals which flew towards Stirling.
Darren and Christina said they envisioned Ava growing up to be CEO because she was “quite conscientious, diligent, hard-working, cared a lot and was very kind.”
“What I miss most is his company, his beautiful company and presence,” Christina said.
Ava was the youngest in a family of six and had a large family with over 20 cousins.
He spent the first seven years of his life growing up in Sydney’s Five Docks before moving to the Adelaide Hills with his family.
Ava originally attended St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School before moving to Loreto College in Year Fuve.
The 12-year-old loved netball and played at her school and at Heathfield Netball Club.
Ava loved netball, playing the piano, spending time with her dogs Lucy and Betty and cooking with her mother (Ava’s positive vision board pictured)
In addition to that, she played the piano, loved spending time with her dogs Lucy and Betty, and enjoyed cooking with her mother.
He had dreamed of joining the Loreto rowing team but was unable to due to his cancer.
Ava was born on August 9, 2011 and died surrounded by her family.