4 h, jan 20, 2015 y - GET WELL
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Queensland Kid
Johnny Depp
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An 11-year-old boy with a rare brain disease has come one step closer to fulfilling his dream of meeting Pirates of the Caribbean character Captain Jack Sparrow.
At the London premier of his latest Hollywood blockbuster, Mortdecai, Johnny Depp was heard wishing Jed Baker, who was diagnosed with Moyamoya, a disease that causes the blood vessels in his brain to constrict, to: 'get well soon, brother.'
When asked if the pirate obsessed fan from Ravenshoe in far north Queensland could come visit his Gold Coast film set for the fifth movie in the series, Depp responded 'Absolutely, it's easy!'.
Jed's mother Nicola Baker told Daily Mail Australia that her son was so excited by the footage that he 'watched it four times in a row and went into a 'pirate frenzy' so far that I had to draw a mascara moustache on him that he refused to wash off'.
The mother-of-three said her eldest son's love for Captain Sparrow grew during the long hours he spent in hospital recovering from multiple surgeries to treat his rare condition.
At only 11-years-old, Jed has undergone a renal artery bypass and three separate brain surgeries in which four sections of his brain were operated on.
'His prognosis now is that he's palatable - that doesn't mean he's going to die, but it means there are no other surgical interventions they can do,' Ms Baker said.
