When they got the news, the tears came instantly.
Mike Aviles and his wife, Jessy, were walking down a hospital hallway in November for another appointment in an endless list of tests and check-ups and treatments. With them was Adriana, their little girl who was diagnosed with leukemia last May. These had become familiar halls.
Adriana’s primary doctor had been trying to contact them all day. Finally, he found them in the hallway. That’s when the former Indians utility player and his wife heard the words they had been desperately waiting to hear since May: “She’s at zero.