Dakarai Jackson’s brave battle against leukemia during his last year of high school

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Dakarai Jackson Jr. was hoping to have a memorable, fun, social senior year in high school. About two minutes into the school year, he became ill and was diagnosed with Acute B-Cell Leukemia.

“I caught a fever and I was sick and we just thought it was a regular fever and it would blow over. I went back to school, but I wasn’t feeling normal. I was fatigued. I wasn’t eating,” he said.

By the time his father took him to the hospital, he couldn’t walk…

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