Bill withdrawal leaves Mount Airy family, others with PANDAS with little help fighting expensive procedures

The changes to Colin LaVern came overnight.

Colin, of Mount Airy, was 7 or 8 years old when he started presenting symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and began to have tics, said his mother Jody LaVern. When he crossed through a doorway, he would double tap his foot, his hand on the wall or his hat. His tics came in the form of eye blinking. If someone bumped into him, he would bump them back.

“He had a thing about symmetry,” LaVern said. “So everything he was doing was in twos.”

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