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One of the COOLEST campaigns out there is Drew Olanoff’s fight against his own cancer, Hodgkins Lymphoma. Something he started early on was what he called, simply, Blame Drews Cancer. All you had to do was tweet out something like this: I #blamedrewscancer for….(fill in the blank with whatever annoys you). It got a bit of buzz, was inspirational and people really got behind a man so determined to win his own personal fight. Except it’s not just a fight for him, it’s a fight for everyone.

Drew is an amazing guy, someone who decided he wasn’t going to let ‘cancer’ beat him. And he hasn’t. The last tests showed, well maybe you should just read the results in his own words and then come back here and finish this off.

Of course who of us has been untouched by cancer? I can tell you for me personally I lost my grandmother to it in 1982, my father to it in 1986, and just a little less than 5 years ago my mother got sick. I went to help her out and was told by the doctor she had colon cancer and in her physical state there was nothing they could do. I was then asked to share this news with my mom. She died 3 short weeks later, the night I arrived home.

Drew’s example of fighting has touched me personally. Yeah we follow each other, yeah we’ve had a couple of conversations, but his story is so incredibly inspirational, I really want to support him. His fight has taken on a life of it’s own and he is the driver. Through all the throwing up, stomach ailments, weakness just plain nasty feelings that come with treating cancer with chemotherapy, he has remained strong and LOUDLY proclaiming his absolute assurance that he will BEAT this. He provides hope unlike any other person I have ever seen to every one of us who have battled this or anything like this in our lives.

But Drew’s story doesn’t end there. He got an idea. He decided to do something bigger. Boy did he decide to do something bigger! Drew Olanoff was early to the twitter game. He got a rather cool 4 letter name, @drew on twitter back in the beginning. he also got a brainstorm. How about auctioning off his name to the highest bidder? He checked with the powers that be at twitter headquarters and they agreed for this sort of thing to make an exception to their TOS.

Drew Carey, from the Drew Carey Show, Whose Line is it Anyway?, current host of The Price is Right and @DrewFromtv, started with 12k followers on twitter when he got wind of Drew Olanoff’s cancer challenge. He threw his hat into the cancer ring offering to donate $25k then quickly upping it to $100k if he got an equal number of followers by Nov. 9th, Drew Olanoff’s birthday. But it didn’t end there.

Drew Carey has now raised the bar yet again stating on his network, CBS, that should he get 1 million followers by midnite Dec. 31st, he will donate 1 million dollars to LIVESTRONG.com, Lance Armstrong’s Foundation which is also paired up with Drew Olanoff. Amazing!

What can you do? It’s simple really and won’t cost you a dime. All you have to do to make this happen is follow @DrewFromtv. If you don’t have a twitter account get one. Go to the twitter site, create an account and make a follow for @DrewFromtv your first piece of business. If you already have an account, you know what to do. What are you out for a HUGE donation to fight cancer? A click of the mouse, my friends. Your 1 click can make all the difference. Just do it already. This is a CHALLENGE to all my friends, my entire network. Let’s get 1 million dollars to fight cancer. We can do it! We’ve seen a real miracle already. Together we can make another one.

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