SPG4: Taylor Swift tickets being auctioned off to help fund for Ottawa boy with rare disease [Video]

A pair of Taylor Swift tickets are being auctioned off in Ottawa to help fund a cure for a Stittsville boy with a rare disease.

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Last year, seven-year-old Jack was diagnosed with hereditary spastic paraplegia type four (SPG4), a disease that affects less than 0.01 per cent of the population.

“He has a mutation in one of his genes, the neurons in his brain and spinal cord are slowly degenerating and as they do that, he’s slowly becoming paralyzed,” his mother, Anna Laidlaw said.

Although there is currently no treatment or cure, his parents Anna and Richard Laidlaw have been fundraising since March to help fund one.

“We were playing hockey, and he asked me why his leg wasn’t working to do a turn that he needed to do for a drill,” Richard said. “So, …