The purpose of sharing our family story, published in the New York Times Magazine March 21, 2021 edition, is to alert and inform friends and family, as well as medical practitioners outside of a pediatric setting, in the hope that what may appear as sudden or recurring Neurologic or Psychiatric symptoms, may be an undiagnosed potentially life-threatening rare metabolic disease. Sean and Andrea may be the first known cases in the world with adult-onset. There may be others that are undiagnosed or mis-diagnosed.
A link to Dr. Lisa Sanders NYT Magazine Diagnosis March 17 column can be found here: https://www.nytimes.com/column/diagnosis - You may need to sign-up for a free account or login using your Google, Facebook or Apple account.