I went to Dr google and did some
research over like who normally gets
diagnosed with my specific type of
cancer and it's usually kids below the
age of nine and predominantly caucasian
with me having like this weird
diagnosis . I fall in the pediatrics
team . So I'm around a bunch of kids
and all my doctors are pediatric
oncologist . So I spent most of my day
on play dates with the kids and the
Clinic because I'm like a 25 year old
and they're like four running around .
Mhm . Okay . I
am one of many D . O . D . Cancer
survivors . I was diagnosed in Saudi
Arabia while forward deployed , got
admitted to hospital while in Saudi
Arabia where I was diagnosed with T
cell leukemia . The Air Force basically
designated a whole aircraft to me to
basically fly me from out of Saudi
Arabia to walter reed medical center
where I received following care and
treatment being in the military . I
think my cancer was caught at the early
stage it could be caught . I was
healthy before I went and in the span
of a month I felt a little bit sick I
was diagnosed and the treatment within
within the couple I would argue . Even
days of the the day they found out that
I wasn't feeling well I was getting
treated my current journey I guess I've
been trying to open myself up to
research team so they can you know get
the research they need for my cancer
and kind of help the future people who
get diagnosed with the disease because
I wouldn't be where I am and what
people before me . And it's definitely
unusual for someone like me to have it ,
which is more so why , like all these
research teams are like trying to , you
know , figure out what environmental
things have been done to potentially
give me the cancer . There's a little
girl . But I play with that clinic all
day . And I think , you know , like if
I deny research seems the ability to
access my information and do research ,
you know , I am essentially , you know ,
risking that little girl's life because
now she doesn't have the research that
she needs to get the treatment she
needs .