On Friday, Fisher and his wife, Candi, announced they had started The Jimbo and Candi Fisher Kidz 1st Fund to raise awareness and money for research to battle the disease that is affecting their youngest son.
Candi Fisher said Ethan became sick with the flu during the Christmas holidays while visiting family in Alabama. She took her son to an urgent care clinic, where blood work showed Ethan had abnormally low platelet counts. Doctors told her the abnormalities could have been the result of a virus, but
"We'd never even heard of it when we heard it was a possibility," Candi Fisher said. "We'd talked to some doctor friends who said, 'That's impossible. It's just too rare. We barely even remember talking about it during medical school.' Once we learned he had it, there just wasn't enough information
"Right now, there's not any treatment," Candi Fisher said. "It's just kind of a waiting game right now. He'll have to have his blood work redone every three months and he'll have to do an updated bone marrow biopsy once a year. They'll just keep watching his counts and when he starts showing a decli
"We feel like we have a voice that maybe other people who have been affected by this disease don't have," Candi Fisher said. "We have an opportunity to do something on a greater scale, to not only help Ethan but to help the other families whose lives have been affected by this disease. [We want] to