Crowd turns out for critically ill 9-year-old author's book signing

Brianna Spaulding, pen name Brianna Grindle, is a happy, creative girl who is always hungry. She recently published a book and about 40 people celebrated with her at Waldo County YMCA Thursday evening, Sept. 17. Spaulding has disautonomia, a critical condition which paralyzed her stomach and continually affects her blood pressure, breathing and digestion, as well as mitochondrial disorder, which prevents her ...