My idea

Before I relapsed I did a lot of advocacy work with the ACS and other organizations to help spread awareness of cancer and ways people could help. When/If I get better I would love to get right back on doing that. But this time I would like to spread the word about donating blood products (blood, platelets, marrow) and the importance of this. I know I've talked about it in other posts but I just want to elaborate a little more.

I would like to talk more with children, as I did before, around the ages of 11-18. I know that some might think that 11 is too young to be learning about stuff like cancer, but it's never too young, plus I was forced to learn about it when I was diagnosed at that age. The point wouldn't be to scar them or anything but just to inform them that it is real. I can't tell you how many ignorant people there are out there who think that cancer is a myth. It's extremely real for me.

I'm no doctor but I figure that I can do a pretty good job of explaining what my disease is and how it effects my every day life, from there I'd go into the importance that blood products played in my treatment. I guess I'd give out a survey before hand to see how much they actually know about to topic. I know that not everyone would pay attention or care, but if I could get at least 3% of those kids to get involved then I've accomplished something.