The family of an Indiana girl who beat cancer sued the Illinois hospital that sent her home with a toxic amount of prescription pain medications, leading to her death.
According to the lawsuit filed in Illinois’ Cook County, Ava Wilson, 11, was in remission for b-lymphoblastic leukemia when she went with her mother to a follow-up appointment at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, on Oct. 29, 2020. According to the Wilsons’ family attorney, Ava was “crying in pain” and having a hard time walking while they met with a nurse practitioner. Lab tests were conducted and revealed that Ava had “low platelet counts, low blood cell counts, and high liver enzymes” in addition to low blood pressure.
The Wilsons’ attorneys — from the legal team of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. — said that rather than admit Ava to keep an eye on her troubling symptoms, the girl was instead sent home with increased dosages for morphine and gabapentin…