raising awareness rather than money

A colleague asked me to talk to their year 11 biology classes about having VHL. 

I was so pleased to do it.

They know me as a teacher and now they know me as a survivor and warrior. 

They are studying genetics, they did the fact bit worked out odds and then I introduced myself... 

I gave the disease you've just been working on... 

I know it meant a lot to them but it meant more to me.