Do you know what it is like to have your child on prayer lists all over the country? I do. In 2017, my son Liam suffered 3 strokes at 9. This was not the worst of it. We end up in Duke PICU undergoing emergency diagnosis surgery for a blood clot in his brain. It is nothing short of a miracle that he survived. To this day, they still do not have a diagnosis for what happened to him.

Similarly, his friend Colin up the street had an unexpected change in his health. One day he is fine, and the next day my neighbor's world is turned upside down. He ended up eventually getting diagnosed with a sporadic disease known as PANS. I felt that this would be an important episode to talk about with my neighbor Denise in the hopes that we can help any parents going through similar situations.

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