The experience is therapeutic in a way that would have helped me immensely through the ordeal. And one of the positive side-effects is that such a piece of writing exists, regardless of the media I use to present it, that could possibly help someone else through their own ordeal. To me, that is one of the most important aspects of the whole project.
Helping others was sort of my part time job while I was undergoing treatment, as I was generally the oldest patient at any given time. If I wasn't, I was the oldest patient that didn't mind talking to all the little kids while my parents talked to their parents. The Lucas family became sort of a cancer therapy in St. Christopher's for a whole year of our lives, and I think being able to do that, to give assistance to others that needed it, helped my mom cope with a lot of what was happening to me.