When Leon “Lee” Garfat was just 4 months old, he was diagnosed with a rare disease that attacks the immune system. His family was told that without treatment, he would not live past the age of 2.

“The doctors said that he had a disease that was not only affecting his immune system, but causing damage to his thyroid,” Lee’s grandmother, Wendy Meachem, said. “We were told if Lee did not receive a bone marrow transplant that he would die.”

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