A little more than a week after giving birth to her son Banks, Carina Klein started to develop strange symptoms. She was slurring her speech. Her hands felt tingly.
Stroke-like symptoms started, which led her to being hospitalized, where she took another sudden turn for the worse.
Doctors say she has acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM. They describe it as an autoimmune attack on the brain and spinal cord…