MANNINGTON — Serving as a coach for Special Olympics, assistant cheer coach at North Marion High and raising her 11-year-old son by herself, Johnna Perris has a busy schedule.

At the end of the 2023-24 school year, however, Perris had something enter her life that forced her to slow down.

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