Before today, I was unable experience first-hand the impact that social media can have in gathering people together and fulfilling dreams. I want to share the story of Ryan Manansala and how he was able to have his one wish granted through the power of social media.

Ryan was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in 2012. He has been looking for a bone marrow donor, but this has proved to be a difficult journey. He needs to receive a transplant from a Filipino, but out of the 10 million Americans registered on the bone marrow transplant list, less than 1% of those are Filipino. He is currently in a state where he can no longer speak, but was able to write out his one final wish: Receive a visit from the Golden State Warriors.

One of Ryan's friends, Sherry Duong, spearheaded this effort through social media to grant her friend's wish. She started out on Facebook, extending to the UC Berkeley student network, which is how I first heard about Ryan. Sherry visually shared her personal experiences with Ryan throughout social media and requested people to tweet at the Golden State Warriors using the hashtag #SaveRyan. This began expanding the effort to Twitter, and creatively used Facebook to elevate this cause. Through the suggestions, she posted on Reddit through the Golden State Warriors subreddit and was able to receive traction there to encourage users to tweet as well.

Soon enough, hundreds of tweets were entering the Twitter Universe and it gained attention quickly! Many users were tweeting #SaveRyan and mentioning @Warriors on their tweets to amplify the message of granting Ryan's one last wish. The turn around through social media was astounding!

In less than 24 hours, Ryan was visited by two players from the Golden State Warriors, David Lee and Nemanja Nedović. His wish was granted and Ryan was overjoyed. The two players spent some time with him at the El Camino Hospital in Mountain View and left him some signed memorabilia.

After this visit, the continuation of #SaveRyan exploded on social media. Many users were thanking the players for visiting Ryan and the Golden State Warriors shared their efforts to their fans through their own social media channels. Ryan's wish was also picked up as a story on the local CBS news and also brought more awareness of the difficulties in finding a donor for a bone marrow transplant.

Ryan is still currently heavily sedated, and is unable to have many visitors. He wished to send you all his love and support, and wants everyone to know that he is still fighting!

Despite the hardships, and the very harsh reality that his battle may finally come to an end, his ONLY wish is to be visited in his hospital room by the GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS. Here is an image of Ryan's message to the warriors under heavy sedation:

Please help spread Ryan's wish across social media and make this come true for someone as deserving as Ryan.

Please tweet to the warriors(@warriors),(@SteveKerr), (@hbarnes), (@StephenCurry30) about Ryan's last wish and hashtag #SaveRyan if you can!

Here is a picture of Ryan after intense chemo, hashtagging it #nohairdontcare HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS GUY?

Just when things began to look good.. everything fell to pieces. I finally felt well enough to post again today, and I want to start off by saying that a lot of hospitals do things their own way and follow their own specific procedures. I've been to El Camino, MD Anderson, UCSF, and so forth, however, UCSD has such a unique process it's actually pretty mind-blowing. I don't want to go into too much detail because I'm not sure if I am allowed to, but let's just say I had to give the attending doctors and nurses advice on how to help me...

I mentioned in my last post that my next CT scan will show if my infection is going away. Unfortunately, the results show that it has gotten worst. I suggested they put me back on Ambisome, the drug I was previously using. I suggested to go back to Ambisome even before they found out about my infection, but they refused to listen then. Now, after the turmoil and difficulties, they have finally put me back on Ambisome.

The biggest twist however, was my AML(Acute Myeloid Leukemia) has now turned to ALL(Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia). It doesn't happen that often, but in my case it did. This is kind of a good thing for me because I was given every treatment for AML. Now that I have ALL, it opens me up to more treatment!

Bad news is my infection is still there. My doctor went through my biopsy results and concluded that he did not have any treatment for me and suggested hospice...HOSPICE..I mean what the fuck! 

"There's just a lot of things to fight for.. And I want to keep fighting." - Ryan Manansala Since his diagnosis, Manansala has tried to maintain a strong outlook on life by spreading the word and raising awareness about cancer.

“I really came to this point where I just want to make sure people understand cancer a little bit more and really put my story out there,” Manansala said.