A boy who survived grueling cancer treatments with help from five anonymous blood donors is inspiring others to give the gift that helped save his life.
Mitch Head graduates from his Port Coquitlam preschool on Friday, after a difficult year of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
“We wiped out his red blood cells. We wiped out his platelets. We wiped out his white cells at various points of the treatment,” said Dr. Lucy Turnham from the hematology and oncology unit at BC Children’s Hospital.
In addition to cancer, Mitch and his older brother were both born with the blood clotting disorder hemophilia. Mitch needed five blood transfusions over the past year, his mother said, but now he’s doing well and in remission.
“He’ll start kindergarten in the fall and he’s going to be like any other five-year-old. He’s going to keep rocking it and be our super Mitch,” Kathleen Head said.
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