1000 KM Goal for August Reached

Just before leaving on 26th for a family visit, where I won’t be able to take my bike with us, I got over my riding 🚲 target 🎯 for the month. Will be back home on Sept 2nd and back on the bike again to continue towards my cross Canada 🇨🇦 riding goal. GCC will be keeping our pages active through September ( Childhood Cancer Awareness Month ) so that further donations can be accepted online. #griffinmyheartforever #childhoodcancerawarenessmonth #thegldnsociety #fightlikeakid

Meet Dominique

Hi Don,

As you take on your third week of the 2025 Great Cycle Challenge, we wanted to share Dominique's incredible story...

10-year-old Dominique is currently fighting leukemia. 💔

In the spring of 2024, Dominique started experiencing alarming symptoms like daily intermittent, unexplained pain. Then she began limping, developed swollen lymph nodes and started to experience persistent fevers.

It took repeated visits to emergency rooms and clinics before Dominique and her family finally received an answer...

In the week after Thanksgiving, her parents rushed her to the emergency room at SickKids where she was finally admitted.

Dominique was diagnosed with precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia on the 21st of October 2024.

Her treatment plan is intensive and complex, shaped by a genetic profile that requires aggressive chemotherapy.

Her body has also proven to be highly sensitive to treatment which has led to complications like allergic reactions and long periods of low blood counts.

But Dominique has proven time and time again that she can overcome any challenge that she comes up against.

She has beat her phobia of needles, overcome difficulty swallowing pills, and learned to calm herself down during regular port accesses.

This girl is unbeatable, and she's kicking cancer's butt. ✊

Dominique continues to receive chemotherapy to help her defeat this disease for good, with her treatment plan expected to last for 3 years.

Her care team are always monitoring her response to treatment and tailoring it to her specific needs at all times.

Dominique loves academics, as well as musical theatre, piano, singing, gymnastics, and circus arts. She has a true gift when it comes to talking, sharing, explaining, and connecting with others.

Dominique should be living life, not fighting for it.

Don, your fundraising efforts will support cancer research to develop treatments and find a cure for childhood cancer to help kids like Dominique and save little lives.

And for Dominique and her family...

Your support means the world. ❤️

We're so grateful that you're riding this month to give kids with cancer the brighter futures they deserve.

Thank you, a million times over! ✊

Ashley (Great Cycle Challenge Team) #griffinmyheartforever #thegldnsociety #fightlikeakid