Leukemia patient asking for help to save lives, including his own

DALLAS — Campbell Fearing is a musician, the son of a famous Dallas family of restaurateurs, and a 22-year-old contemplating a profession in Christian ministry. But what he is concentrating on now could be beating leukemia, maybe along with your help.

“Some women especially tell me they like it,” he joked whereas rubbing his now fully bald head, the results of chemotherapy remedies. “So that’s all I need to hear,” he stated making mild of his present look.

But what he’d actually like to hear, is that there’s a treatment for the leukemia analysis he acquired simply weeks in the past. We met within the foyer of the Jackson Building at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas the place he’s finishing his second spherical of chemotherapy.  Once the chemo has finished its work, a bone marrow transplant is what Campbell will want subsequent. But nobody in his speedy household has confirmed to be a detailed sufficient match.

Still, a courageous 22-year-old informed me this:

“I’m very, I’m very blessed you know, which sounds funny,” he stated. “It’s very humbling. It’s very perspective setting. I’ve taken to account what matters in my life personally.”

“It gives you more compassion for other people in similar circumstances,” his mother Lynae Fearing stated.

Which is why they’re holding a blood stem cell registration drive this Sunday at Lovers Seafood and Market on Lovers Lane in Dallas. A easy and painless swab of the saliva in your mouth places you on the registry checklist. And if you’re a match for somebody, a blood draw is normally all that is wanted.

“I know some people are very anxious about getting blood drawn,” Campbell stated. “But I mean, you’re gonna save someone’s life, so I think they can power through it, you know what I mean,” he stated with amusing.

If not for him, he says, then maybe for another person. Different ethnicities typically account for extra precise matches. Asian and Pacific Islander populations, for instance, should not as nicely represented within the registry as caucasians.

“That’s why I just want to kind of bring everyone, you know, of all ethnicities into this, because that actually does play a part in finding a match,” Campbell stated.

Campbell attends Dallas Baptist University. He hopes to be a youth minister some day. And he says he has thought in regards to the risk that this leukemia analysis is the beginning of his ministry.  The worldwide donor web site DKMS.org has his story right now on their entrance web page.

“It can be something that adds to my testimony and my ministry,” he stated.

“It’s an amazing way to give back and potentially save a life,” Lynae Fearing added.

And they ask you to be part of them Sunday to help save lives too.