13-Year-Old Ava Grace Returns Home After Being in Hospital 22 Months, Community Celebrates Recovery

13 Year Old Ava Weitl goes home after almost 2 years at Mayo Clinic's Saint Marys Campus

ROCHESTER, Minn.- 13 year old Ava Weitl from Des Moines is finally heading home after almost 2 years in the hospital after receiving a heart and kidney transplant at Mayo Clinic's Saint Marys Campus.

Waukee girl finally comes home after a 682-day hospital stay and two organ transplants

WAUKEE, Iowa -- Former teachers, friends, and loved ones gathered at Eason Elementary School and Willowbrook Park to celebrate Ava Weitl coming home after 682 days in the hospital. Ava has hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare heart condition, which required her to have a heart transplant. Cristina DeShaw, Ava's Mother, said she was happy to finally bring Ava home from the hospital. "We celebrate Eva in 680 days of strength and resilience and …

13-year-old Ava Grace returns home after being in hospital 22 months, community celebrates recovery

Ava Grace defies odds after a heart and kidney transplant, returning home to Waukee. Despite ongoing care needs, she's eager to embrace her teenage years.

After nearly two years, 13-year-old Ava Weitl leaves Mayo Clinic with new heart, kidney

ROCHESTER — It was a busy morning on the pediatric ICU floor at Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Marys. As staff filtered in and out of Ava Weitl's room, saying their goodbyes and taking items to her family's car, Ava was finally able to disconnect from the hospital monitoring equipment. "I'm so sick of this," she said, with a grin, as she threw the monitoring lead into a trash can. It marked the end of a nearly two-year hospital stay for the Iowa tee…