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Big hearts. Monster game. Let’s go! 💚👟

We’re putting our 2027 Sporting Life 10K team together in support of Campfire Circle—and we want YOU on Meeky’s Monsters!

📅 Race day: Sunday, May 9, 2027

Campfire Circle brings joy, connection and unforgettable experiences to kids and families navigating serious illness. Our family knows just how much that means. ❤️

There’s nothing quite like taking over Toronto’s streets together—the energy, the cheering crowds, and so many familiar faces from SickKids, including staff and their families. It’s a whole city showing up with heart.

Want in? DM me! I’ll add you to our team list and send you a registration promo code.

A few things to know:
👟 You must complete your own registration online.
👟 Last year’s race sold out a month early, and this one is expected to sell out even sooner—possibly by March. Register early!
👟 All funds we raise support Campfire Circle.

Come for the feel-good vibes. Stay for the cause. Let’s crunch some pavement for kids like Meeky! 💚👹

#SportingLife10K #CampfireCircle #MeekysMonsters #RunToronto #RunForACause

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You don’t really get over watching your child slowly die.

And that’s exactly what was happening for two months leading up to October 21, 2024.

I could give you the statistics. The symptoms we saw and how early they began. How much leukemia was in her bone marrow at diagnosis. The risks that come with treatment. The layers of grief we’ve lived through—anticipatory grief and all the other things we now have names for.

But on tomorrow’s diagnosis anniversary, what I keep coming back to is this: none of us are the people we were on this day two years ago. Not Dominique. Not Andrea. And certainly not Davide and me.

The weight of that—the loss of innocence, of a carefree way of moving through life—can some days, feel unbearable.

Sleeping. Eating. Going to events. Even making small talk. The most ordinary parts of being a person have become some of the hardest.

We feel like cut-outs of ourselves, moving through the steps of our lives. Clinging to birthdays, holidays and calendar milestones. Checking things off as the years pass.

But in the back of our minds, we wait. Afraid that one of those statistics will become our reality and Dominique’s life will be thrown back into peril.

It’s hard to feel much else when the word peril belongs in the same sentence as your child’s name.

I took this video the morning after she was admitted. Something about that trip back to SickKids, at three in the morning on October 19, told me to start recording. So I did.

This is the last video I have of her before diagnosis. Before she changed. Before we changed.

Her hair. Her skin. Her million-dollar smile. The way she walked. Her little teeth. I dream of this version of her almost every night.

One day, I’ll tell her about the girl she was before cancer. How full of life she was. How much she loved Girl Guides and baking and helping organize the Invisibobble drawers at Daddy’s work. All the little things that filled her days.

So she knows she had a beautiful, carefree life before the heaviness of cancer came.

And how much I wish I could have kept it that way for her ✨

#fy #cancer #cancersucks💔 #kidsofig #warrior

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Thank you, Campfire Circle, for all the healing, all the happiness, and all the little “steps in the right direction.” ❤️

Dominique has truly been transformed by your incredible Healing Through Happiness. Through some of the hardest days of her leukemia treatment, you’ve helped bring our girl back to life — giving her joy, confidence, independence and a place where cancer doesn’t get to define her.

Watching her find herself again has been one of the greatest gifts.

We couldn’t be more grateful for everything you’ve given Dominique — and our whole family. ❤️🔥⭕️

#CampfireCircle #familiesofinstagram #ChildhoodCancer #Gratitude #fy

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Last year, back-to-school was horrendous.

While kids everywhere were packing backpacks, meeting their teachers and heading back into classrooms, Dominique was in the hospital for almost a month battling VOD. Back-to-school was very much on our minds, and knowing that life was moving forward outside those hospital walls — while she was so sick and going through so much — made that time even harder on her mental health.

This year feels very, very different. ❤️

After missing two full years of school, Dominique has officially let go of home instruction and is ready to find her own path forward academically. She’ll start with a few days, build from there, and work toward a full-time schedule when she feels ready — all while completing her final year of chemotherapy.

We could never forget the trauma of VOD or where we were just one year ago. But today, we get to celebrate how incredibly far Meeky has come and how well she’s doing.

This is a BIG milestone.

Her school community — the teachers, kids and families — has been so wonderful, and I know they’ll be there for her as she navigates her way back into the classroom, back into a routine and, most importantly, back to simply being a regular kid in Grade 6.

One day at a time. One class at a time. One milestone at a time.

LET’S GO, GRADE 6! 📚✏️🎒❤️

So proud of you, Meeky. ❤️

#fy #kidsofinstagram #childhoodcancerawareness #warrior #cancersucks💔

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Finally, a summer. ❤️

After losing the last two summers to cancer, this was the summer together we so desperately needed.

Concerts, a Montreal road trip, Osheaga (🫣), piano exams, Campfire Circle for BOTH kids, visits with friends, dinners, a Confirmation — and even a little prize thanks to @scrubsinthecityy and @dilawrigroup Group. 😉🙏🏻 ✨

Dom is still in treatment. She’s still fighting. But compared to last summer, and the summer before that, this one felt like absolute heaven.

And we’re not done yet…

Until the bad weather rolls in, we’re squeezing every last drop out of it — catching up on time with friends and family, making memories, and reclaiming some of the togetherness we’ve missed so much.

This was our summer. Finally. ❤️

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A bag journey from Canada to Qatar… from Dominique to Zeina 🤍

Sometimes, people come into our lives through our pain… and somehow become some of the closest people to our hearts, even though we have never met them in person.

That’s how Linda came into my life. She told me when I first talked to her that we are “momcologists” golden moms, stronger together..

I found her while searching for information about leukemia. One simple message turned into a real connection. She started checking in on Zeina all the time, and Dominique became someone I and Zeina often thought about ..

When Linda told me about the Blina phase and the bag she had designed for Dominique to make carrying the treatment easier, she decided to send Dominique’s bag all the way to Zeina.

At first, I thought it was simply a pink bag that looked nicer than the black hospital bag.

But when it arrived, I realized how much such a small detail could actually help.. the way it is carried, and how comfortable and practical the design is for a child.

Linda also sent gifts with it, and Dominique recorded a video for Zeina, telling her about her own experience with Blina..

That video alone eased so much of the fear Zeina had been carrying..

Thank you, Linda and Dominique… from the bottom of my heart. 🤍 #luekemia #childhoodcancer #sidra @lindooch @meeky_and_me_thru_

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What an EPIC night at the Ed Sheeran @teddysphotos concert 🎶🧡😍
A huge thank you to SickKids @sickkidsvs and Rogers Media @rogers @rogersmediapr for the incredible invitation. Another memory made for these two music loving besties! Nights like this are so special a little distraction from everything they’ve been through, a chance to just be kids, laugh, dance, have fun and feel a sense of normalcy. We had the absolute BEST time, and Ed @teddysphotos was simply incredible 🧡😍 #pediatriccancerawareness #warriors #bestfriend #cancer

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A-Vascular Necrosis - Part 1: BONES🦴

During VOD a year ago, the team decided to investigate the excruciating pain Dominique was having in her bacK-right hip.

VOD is incredible painful, but after the enzymes started to lower, with the medicine doing its job, the persisting pain in her back right hip and low back was puzzling.

A CT Scan found damage to her right hip bone from lack of blood flow…something called A-Vascular Necrosis.

High-dose steroids used in Canada for paediatric Leukemia treatment, can have a side effect of harshness on the body - blocking off blood flow to bones.

Just as we were ending a month-long stay for VOD (the scariest aspect of Meeky’s whole treatment aside from learning of her condition and the battle she had ahead of her) we were entering a whole new chapter of outcomes from steroids used in the treatment…bone tissue loss.

Uncovered in her hip, Dominique’s necrosis would prove to be yet another hurdle for her and one that would have life-long effects.

This past year has hit us all hard. Watching Dominique manage yet another medical struggle has been at times defeating - but, triumphant too. As I promised her, we’ve found her rainbows 🌈

Part II of Necrosis and the past year to follow…

This is childhood cancer🎗️💛

#childhoodcancerawareness #leukemia #sick #familiesofinstagram #fypシ❤️💞❤️

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So Much More Than Camp. ❤️

Campfire Circle is more than a camp.

It’s a refuge for kids battling serious illness. It’s peace and calm amidst the chaos of medicines, pokes, and endless anxiety. It’s happiness and belonging when they’re carrying so much grief and loss.

Campfire is so much more than… camp.

Campfire Circle is EVERYTHING.

She did it — year 2. ❤️ And as much as she couldn’t wait to go back, we couldn’t wait to have her home again, hearing all her stories and seeing just how much this place means to her.

#cancer #momcologist #fy #campfirecircle childhoodcancerawareness

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Dominique has started Cycle 4 of maintenance — LP, IV chemo, and an increase in all of her oral chemo.

As always, we’re trying to live and heal while she continues treatment, both at home and in the hospital.

Maintenance is a tough road. It may be easier on the body in some ways, but it can be harder to navigate alongside ordinary life — finding a rhythm between chemo and childhood, treatment and simply living.

But she’s doing it beautifully. And we keep taking each day as it comes, at her pace. 💛

#cancer #fypシ❤️💞❤️ #cancersucks #pediatricleukemia #sickkids

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These two are making the most of summer—sharing sunshine, laughter, and unforgettable memories while getting through leukemia treatment together☀️💛

Their bond is unbreakable 💪🙏🏻

#friendship #bestiesforlife❤️ #ᴄᴀɴᴄᴇʀsᴜᴄᴋs #familiesofinstagram #warriors

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Meet The Linda 💫

The bag of the summer.

Crafted in Italy. Designed for timeless style. Made for those who understand that true luxury never needs to announce itself 🫰#

A quiet statement. An everyday icon.

The LINDA

Exclusively at ONE-ONE 💫

📍 506 Eglinton Avenue West

📲 416-483-1212

👉 info@one2onestudio.com

#fypシ #torontofashionblogger #italianmade🇮🇹 #foresthill

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