MINOOKA — Tracy Harvey was just a normal mother of three teenagers, raising her kids, active in the Minooka United Methodist Church, working at the Channahon branch of the Three Rivers Public Library, married to a loving husband, and making sure she found some time here and there for her hobbies of gardening and reading.

Then suddenly, while she was cooking dinner one night this past October, she had a series of little seizures in her face.