Ruthie O’Brien GBS Recovery Update: 17-Year-Old MPHS Senior Returns to ICU as Family Holds on to Hope
Ruthie O’Brien’s Recovery Update Updated August 10, 2026 — 2:30 p.m. EDT MOUNT PLEASANT, NORTH CAROLINA — Seventeen-year-old Ruthie O’Brien, a rising senior at Mount Pleasant High School in Cabarrus County, has returned to the intensive care unit at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte as she continues her recovery from severe Guillain-Barré syndrome … Read more