Everyone's cancer journey is different. Mine began when I was 13 with an annual well check in October of 2020. On that Monday my pediatrician gave me a clean bill of health but recommended to follow up the well check the next day with some blood work to get a baseline for hormonal changes in my teen years. On Wednesday, the results of the blood work revealed there was an issue with my blood counts and so follow up tests were ordered for that Thursday. By Friday of that week I was sent to the Prinses Maxima Centrum in Utrecht, Netherlands for yet further follow up tests. And later that evening I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. What a difference those four days can make.A leukemia diagnosis is devastating. For me, it was life altering. I will forever deal with the trauma of being healthy one day and having a life altering disease four days later. But I am a survivor that gets to tell his story. And for that I will be forever grateful to my oncologist and team of care providers at the Prinses Maxima Centrum in Utrecht. Being in a foreign country and battling this life-threatening disease during a global pandemic without extended family there to support me and my immediate family was extremely difficult. But my doctor and all the nurses and staff at Prinses Maxima helped tremendously. Everyone was so kind, always spoke to me in my native English, and always worked hard to put me at ease.I am happy to report that I am now in remission and doing well. I got to ring my bell in November of 2022. By then my extended family from the United States were able to come to the Netherlands and help me celebrate the end of my treatment journey. That day was about me, for sure. Because it wasn't an easy thing to battle leukemia. But the day was also an opportunity for my family to say thank you to my doctor and nurses who helped me beat my leukemia.I encourage all of you to consider donating to St. Baldrick's to say thank you to all the doctors and nurses who are helping kids like me battle childhood cancers and to all the researchers who are developing treatments, diagnostics, and hopefully cures for cancers. And thank you for supporting me and the more than 300,000 kids worldwide who will be diagnosed with cancer this year. By sharing the gifts of your time, talent and money with the St. Baldrick's Foundation, you're supporting research to give all kids with cancer a better chance to be a survivor like me.