Yorktown Girl Battles with Rare Childhood Illness

From bowling to baseball, from sitting in a classroom to learning how to text, Lisa Marie Hodes has the same experiences many 10-year-olds have growing up in 2011. Those experiences, which may seem simple and rudimentary for most children, do not come as easily to Lisa, who suffers from alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), a childhood illness that has affected one-in-one million births over the last few years. North County News article (PDF format)