Just a summary of it all though, I will be going to Camp Periwinkle very soon and I cannot wait, my best chemo friend Rosa Ibarguen unfortunately passed away this past week, and I took my very last dose of Methotrexate chemo tonight. I am getting closer and closer to the end of treatment and I am getting more and more excited.
Tonight I write as kind of a request..
I'm sure plenty of you know that I am a huge huge fan of One Direction and some of you may know that when I get my all day chemo treatments, I watch their videos literally the ENTIRE time. That kind of distraction from the chemo has helped me to feel better and keep me from getting sick. I actually REALLY want to meet them. And if there is anything that ive learned from the past two and a half years it would be that if you want something to happen you have to make it happen. If you want to get better, you have to make yourself better, and if you want to be happy, then just be happy! So if I want to meet one direction, I should make a video begging to meet one direction and get as many people as I can to help this video go viral and eventually get to them! So here is my request.. Send this video to everyone you know and tell them to pass it on. I am passing it on to Ryan Seacrest and other big names in the Radio Industry. I just want to meet these boys and thank them for everything that they have done for me, and this video going viral also serves the purpose of raising awareness for Childhood Cancer.
Please please please reblog this, repost it on facebook, post it on twitter, on instagram, and lets get this thing really going. Even if it never makes it around to the boys (which I of course hope and pray it does), make sure as many people as possible see my story and are aware of what kids like me go through!
Thank you all so much for everything and all of the support...
Here is what I sent to the radio stations and you can follow the link to the youtube video to learn how to post it to your walls! :) I do ask that just the video is shared and the bio that was typed up and not this particular blog post :)
My name is Devin Duncan and I am a 19 year old two time
Leukemia Survivor from Houston, Texas. I was diagnosed for the first time in
November of 1996 and the second time on February 18, 2010 and am currently
undergoing treatment at Texas Children's Hospital. Since being diagnosed I have
become a children's cancer advocate and have done spokesperson work for Texas
Children's Hospital, The Snowdrop Foundation, Angels in Action, and The
Sunshine Kids. I have spoken at events like the Lombardi Awards, The Layla
Grace Foundation Golf Tournament, The American Cancer Society's Oscar Night
America- Houston, numerous schools, etc. I have been in several fashion shows,
attended several runs with the Snowdrop Foundation and Kevin Kline of Houston's
New 93Q, been on several newscasts, been on the front page of the Houston Chronicle,
won Homecoming Queen, been on several radio shows, and even put together a
"Bald is Beautiful" event at my high school that raised over $4,000
in 3 days for the Curing Children's Cancer Fund-. I went to a community college
close to my doctors last year and while getting chemo and missing numerous
weeks of school due to illness, took 32 hours and earned a 3.9 GPA. I was
recently accepted to the University of Texas at Austin to study Public
Relations and hopefully one day go to work at Texas Children's in the PR
department and continue to help sick kids just like me. I have a ritual when I
get chemo where I watch One Direction videos on YouTube back to back to back
when I get chemo every Monday and it helps me to keep my mind off of the chemo
and keep me from getting sick. For anyone who doesn't have cancer, they don't
realize how hard it is to keep yourself from getting sick from chemo and One
Direction has managed to help me do just that. So to thank them (and of course
because I love them), I am officially inviting them to my end of chemo dinner
to celebrate with me and my family. When I was diagnosed for the second time at
the age of 17, I actually didn't cry, but I instead asked the doctors,
"what do we have to do to beat this?" I have that same "will
win" attitude when it comes to this. I figured if I wanted it to happen I
had to make it happen! So I have made them a short video asking them to come
that you can find at the link below. I am sending this video to as many people
as I possibly can to try and make it happen. I appreciate your help and feel
free to pass it along! :)
http://youtu.be/_bb3a1Bb4tw
xoxo
Devin Duncan