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I went to Dr google and did some

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research over like who normally gets

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diagnosed with my specific type of

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cancer and it's usually kids below the

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age of nine and predominantly caucasian

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with me having like this weird

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diagnosis . I fall in the pediatrics

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team . So I'm around a bunch of kids

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and all my doctors are pediatric

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oncologist . So I spent most of my day

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on play dates with the kids and the

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Clinic because I'm like a 25 year old

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and they're like four running around .

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Mhm . Okay . I

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am one of many D . O . D . Cancer

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survivors . I was diagnosed in Saudi

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Arabia while forward deployed , got

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admitted to hospital while in Saudi

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Arabia where I was diagnosed with T

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cell leukemia . The Air Force basically

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designated a whole aircraft to me to

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basically fly me from out of Saudi

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Arabia to walter reed medical center

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where I received following care and

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treatment being in the military . I

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think my cancer was caught at the early

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stage it could be caught . I was

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healthy before I went and in the span

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of a month I felt a little bit sick I

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was diagnosed and the treatment within

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within the couple I would argue . Even

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days of the the day they found out that

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I wasn't feeling well I was getting

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treated my current journey I guess I've

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been trying to open myself up to

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research team so they can you know get

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the research they need for my cancer

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and kind of help the future people who

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get diagnosed with the disease because

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I wouldn't be where I am and what

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people before me . And it's definitely

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unusual for someone like me to have it ,

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which is more so why , like all these

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research teams are like trying to , you

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know , figure out what environmental

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things have been done to potentially

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give me the cancer . There's a little

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girl . But I play with that clinic all

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day . And I think , you know , like if

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I deny research seems the ability to

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access my information and do research ,

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you know , I am essentially , you know ,

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risking that little girl's life because

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now she doesn't have the research that

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she needs to get the treatment she

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needs .