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PHOENIX (3TV / CBS 5) Eight-year-old Ava Boyd has struggled with cystic fibrosis, a disease that has resulted in nine operations, eleven daily prescriptions and a feeding tube, since he was born.

“She has to have respiratory treatment every day, and every morning her little sister is allowed to play every night, and she can’t make her connected,” says Kitty Boyd, Ava’s mother.

Boyd says Ava has been in the hospital for at least a month each year of her life.

“Sometimes Ava drives up, ‘what doctor do I need to see mom? Do I have to have ouch today?” Said Boyd.

But recently, Ava hasn’t been afraid of her trips to Phoenix Children’s Hospital. She was part of Power Play PCH, a program where Phoenix Children’s brings its patients together with Arizona State University fashion students so they can design their own superhero costumes. For Ava, an aspiring fashion designer, this was just the thing for her.

“She knew everything. It wasn’t like I don’t know what you’re thinking? She said, ‘No, I want pink, I want purple, I want the camouflage,” says Courtney Hatch, the ASU student paired with Ava.

Tonight, PCH premiered its film with the transformation of its three superheroes.

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