Texas mom Casey Daniel was told her young son Witten had the flu, only for him to become paralyzed hours later—because of a rare brain disorder that makes cells bleed.
The boy, a little league MVP, lost his ability to walk, talk, and even breathe independently in 24 hours.
Doctors then realized that the child had a cavernoma—a mulberry-like cluster of leaking cells near his brain stem.
The prognosis was dark: Casey heard that due to the condition that affects 1 in every 2,000 people, her boy would likely never walk again.
In another case, a pediatrician thought it was an earache
Another person to witness the medical anomaly in their offspring is Connie Lee.
She recalls how her four-month-old daughter struggled to sleep and started becoming progressively more irritable over the course