Zooming from her camper in Milwaukee, Jessica McCorkle told me about her daughter and how she’d been very sick for five years. After going to several doctors for three years as she got progressively worse, Addison, who’s 15 now, was diagnosed with pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. It was triggered by a prior mono infection. McCorkle says her daughter went from a happy child to a completely different person overnight.
“I had my daughter, and then I didn’t have my daughter, like mentally she was not there,” McCorkle said, trying to hold back tears. “You could see it in her eyes that she was still in there somewhere.”
