November 1, 2025

I had just stepped out of the shower when my husband, Scott, called from the hospital, where our 9-year-old daughter had been a patient in the pediatric ICU for four weeks. He had relieved me that morning so I could go home, shower and return for a meeting with the doctors about our daughter’s condition.  When he told me our daughter’s diagnosis was “neuromyelitis optica,” a rare…