Jackson Hebert otherwise known as SuperJack passed away last year at the age of 16, after a battle with bone cancer. To keep his memory alive, his family created SuperJack stickers.
INGERSOLL - A family from Ingersoll is keeping their son's memory alive through Lego stickers.
Jackson Hebert otherwise known as SuperJack passed away last year at the age of 16, after a 10 month battle with Osteogenic sarcoma, which is an aggressive form of bone cancer. Jack was a normal healthy teenager when he pulled a ligament while goofing around with his friends at school. At first the doctors told him it was just a pulled tendon and it wasn't a big deal. Jack went back to the doctor when the ligament wasn't healing. He was then sent to physiotherapy and he still wasn't getting better, if anything the swelling was getting worse. Jackson went back to the doctor for an X-ray, at first they thought that maybe he had cracked a fibula or something like that. Jackson's Stepfather Dan Hebert says the family was in shock when they heard that it was bone cancer.
"He did the x-ray at 2:00 pm in the afternoon and when we checked our voicemail that night, we had frantic calls from the hospital, saying he had to come back to the hospital right away for a chest x-ray and a brain CT. Jack's mother and my wife is actually a nurse specialist, so she called the hospital and said you clearly made a mistake, something is wrong, you got the wrong name, you got the wrong kid, it doesn't make sense, he hurt is leg, he hurt his knee, it doesn't make sense."
Jack had a courageous battle with cancer, fighting all the way, doing three rounds of chemotherapy and even amputating his leg, above the knee. Unfortunately he lost this battle, just 10 months after his diagnosis. During this time the community was rallying around Jack, the local McDonald's in the Town of Ingersoll even had a McJack day where proceeds from his favourite food, chicken nuggets went to the family. It was the only time in history you could purchase chicken nuggets in the morning, during breakfast.
Jack was also a huge fan of Lego. With this in mind, the family created lego stickers of Jack, dressed as Superman, or SuperJack. They handed them out at his memorial and Hebert says you started seeing those stickers everywhere.
"People started putting them on the back of his phones and when we left his Celebration of Life, the kids went ahead of us and put stickers on our mailbox, on our house, on the fire hydrant in front of our house, the whole street was just covered with the stickers."
One of Jack's dying wishes was to see the world, and unfortunately he wasn't able to do that. Hebert says they started taking the lego stickers with them on trips.
"We got the idea to put these stickers all over the place, so we would take them on trips and then other people started asking us for the stickers and taking them on trips and that's when we created the SuperJack Facebook page. These stickers have been to Australia, Spain, Costa Rica, Northern Ontario, all over the place, we try to hide the stickers where people won't see them and take them down."
If you want a SuperJack sticker to take with you on your next trip, you can pick them up at his parents store, Grand Medical Supplies in Tillsonburg. Hebert says he did operate a specialty medical store in Norwich for a year, and then they closed the store when Jack got sick and Dan was driving a tractor trailer, before coming off the road to be Jack's primary caregiver.
"Before he passed away, he had sat down with me and said that he did not want me to drive a truck anymore, that I had to be here to help take care of the family and at that time, I promised him that I wouldn't go back on the road and then after he passed away, you know, bills come due, and I went back on the road.
Hebert was on the road in Quebec when his wife got a call from the original owner of Grand Medical Supplies. He was ready to retire and asked if we were interested in the store. They ended up buying the store and Hebert is certain Jack had a part in all of this.
"The one day somebody parked kind of crooked and blocked off my spot and while I was talking to the person who parked in my spot, kind of getting into an argument with them about parking in my spot, I noticed in my parking spot, which I would have never seen, if that person hadn't of parked crooked, there was a white lego brick, sitting in the middle of my parking space, which for me was a way for Jack to tell me that he had a hand in helping this and making this happen, from wherever he is and that made us feel like we were on the right path."
If you want a SuperJack sticker to take with you on your next trip, you can pick them up at his parents store, Grand Medical Supplies in Tillsonburg.
Jackson with his family before his passing (submitted)
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