Evansville family says insurance company ‘messed up,’ won’t cover months of appointments

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - The morning of November 13, 2024, Jesse Cano woke up paralyzed.

“Our son woke up, I was gonna go help with that, threw my legs off the bed, and I collapsed three times,” Jesse said. “So in a matter of 24 hours I went from feeling weakness in my left hand to not being able to walk myself out of the door.”

He spent two weeks at Deaconess before being airlifted to Indianapolis.

On Thanksgiving Day, he learned he had a rare form of Guillain-Barre Syndrome called Acute Motor Axonal Neuropathy.

Since then, he’s had intense physical therapy and rehab to regain function.

“Clearly with him being completely paralyzed with a rare disease, he needed the therapy,” Jesse’s wife, Kennedy, said. “You don’t know how to walk, you don’t know how to use your hands, he still can’