A patient with leukemia asks for your help to save lives, including his own.

DALLAS. Campbell Fearing is a musician, son of a prominent family of Dallas restaurateurs, and a 22-year-old who is considering a career in Christian ministry. But for now, he’s focused on beating leukemia, perhaps with your help.

“Some women especially tell me they love it,” he joked, rubbing his now completely bald head from chemotherapy. “So, that’s all I need to hear,” he said, taking his current appearance lightly.

But what he really would like to hear is that there is a cure for the leukemia diagnosis he was given just a few weeks ago. We met in the lobby of Jackson’s building at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where he is undergoing his second cycle of chemotherapy. After the chemotherapy does its job, Campbell will need a bone marrow transplant. But none of his immediate family turned out to be a close enough guy.

However, a brave 22-year-old told me the following:

“I’m very, I’m very happy, you know, which sounds funny,” he said. “It’s very humiliating. This is a very promising environment. I’ve taken into account what matters in my personal life.”

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

That’s why this Sunday, Lovers Seafood and Market on Lovers Lane in Dallas is hosting a blood stem cell registration event. A simple and painless saliva swab from your mouth puts you on the register. And if you match someone, it’s usually enough to take blood.

“I know some people are very afraid to donate blood,” Campbell said. “But I mean you’re going to save someone’s life so I think they can get through it, you know what I mean,” he said with a laugh.

If not for him, he says, then maybe for someone else. Different ethnic groups often give more accurate matches. The population of Asian and Pacific islands, for example, is not as well represented in the register as Caucasians.

“That’s why I just want to get all, you know, all nationalities involved in this because it really plays a part in finding a match,” Campbell said.

Campbell attends Dallas Baptist University. He hopes to one day become a youth minister. And he says he thought about the possibility that this leukemia diagnosis could be the beginning of his ministry. On the worldwide donor website DKMS.org, his story is on the front page today.

“It could be something that will add to my testimony and my ministry,” he said.

“This is an amazing way to repay and potentially save a life,” Lainey Fearing added.

And they ask you to join them on Sunday to help save lives too.