A panicked parent calls. Her vigorous, active toddler was recovering from a cold when he suddenly began to have trouble walking, crying as though in pain. His face "looks funny," the parent reports.

CHARLOTTE — Three-year-old Logan Reese was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition caused by inflammation of the spinal cord, after experiencing sudden paralysis on St.

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