Ava and her Mother began a wintry Tahoe Christmas with skis and smiles, but would end their foray with a life-flight to the traumatic care ward of a Reno hospital. As Ava stood over her bashed and bloodied mother, her fanciful dreams of the "best Christmas ever" were instantly traded for the realization of the life-and-death struggle that lay ahead. She couldn't conceive the treachery and torment that would befall her family under the care of the state-of-the-art medical facility in which they found themselves. The following months would be rife with botched surgeries, thwarted transfer...

Ava and her Mother began a wintry Tahoe Christmas with skis and smiles, but would end their foray with a life-flight to the traumatic care ward of a Reno hospital. As Ava stood over her bashed and bloodied mother, her fanciful dreams of the best Christmas ever were instantly traded for the realization of the life-and-death struggle that lay ahead. She couldn't conceive the treachery and torment that would befall her family under the care of the state-of-the-art medical facility in which they found themselves. The following months would be rife with botched surgeries, thwarted transfer...