Noah, the middle son of 3 boys, was 12 years old and in the 7th grade during the fall of 2019; his days were full of school, soccer practices and games, improv classes, and rehearsing for his theater company’s upcoming performance of “Tuck Everlasting”.

After starting to have some occasional headaches in late July, they became more frequent by early September, and by the weekend after Labor Day, they were accompanied by vomiting, especially after his soccer practices. Thinking the symptoms were from dehydration, Noah’s dad took him to his pediatrician’s walk in clinic on Saturday morning, September 7, after symptoms continued to persist and worsen. As the pediatrician flashed the light in Noah’s eyes, she commented that she did not like...