13-year-old Jack Malott-Clarke of London, Ont., has been a comic book fan his entire life. He loves dressing up as some of his favourite characters and attending annual Comic Con events.
But his world changed in 2019 when at the age of 10, he was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia, a condition in which his body is unable to produce new blood cells and platelets, causing an empty bone marrow.
Jack’s condition requires him have a blood transfusion at least twice a week. To date, he’s received about 130 units of blood and platelets, but that’s becoming more challenging due to an ongoing blood shortage in Canada.
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