POCATELLO — Conor Barfuss was sitting poolside at a hotel in St. George, Utah, last June when everything turned on its ear for the 13-year-old and his family.

It all started, according to his mother Marianne Barfuss, with Conor complaining of a headache. Concerned the heat of a summer afternoon was the culprit, Marianne tried to get her son to cool down. Conor was unable to verbalize it in the moment, but recalls hallucinating.

“After, it felt like an eternity but probably only a minute or two, I got him to look at me and his eyes — the pupils of his eyes were like a pin,” Marianne said.

“It was all so weird,” Conor added. “It happened so quick and there’s spotty — like, there’s stuff I don’t remember, some stuff I do remember.”

Marianne said that she was fully aware of strokes and the

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