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Jennifer Mathews: She hops, sings, and dances like other 3-year olds, but last year, little Avril spent her days in bed at the hospital. It started with a fever and rashes that wouldn't go away and pain that spread to every part of her body.
Avril Sutherland-Wagner: She would complain her neck hurt, her fingers hurt, her knees hurt, and they kept saying it was symptoms of the flu.
Jennifer Mathews: But Avril's widowed grandmother and great-aunt knew it wasn't the flu.
Avril Sutherland-Wagner: She had almost quit eating because she had it in her jaw bones.
Jennifer Mathews: Finally, they found a doctor who knew what it was. Pediatric Rheumatologist Philip Hashkes diagnosed Avril with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, or JIA, and put her on the drug Kineret.
Philip Hashkes: It was literally a miracle drug. The day after she got this medicine, all her other symptoms were gone.
Jennifer Mathews: Every day nurses come to house to give Avril an injection of Kineret. It hurts, but it's worth it.
Avril Sutherland-Wagner: She doesn't complain of any pains, of any aches. She laughs; she jokes, she marches, she dances and that's what being a child is.
Jennifer Mathews: This is Jennifer Mathews reporting.
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