Victoria is our beloved daughter. Single child of a loving couple, married for over 20 years.
She was the most loving and caring, generous child we ever met. She shined and touched many lives around her, even perfect strangers on the bus on her way to school every morning. She was the kind of person you can't miss in a room. She had such a strong and vocal personality and we wish we could have seen her rocking the world as an adult. She could have accomplished so many great things. She was a rock climbing lover, flying on her ice skates, dancing, skateboarding and most importantly, singing all day long.
In the summer of 2018, she was not yet 10, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor called a glioblastoma. This kind of tumor is unforgiving: it grows extremely fast and leaves a life expectancy of barely more than a year. It is also impossible to fully remove through surgery as it grows in the midst of healthy tissue.
She beat the cancer for more than 30 months following diagnosis, thanks to the fantastic team at MSK Kids, the pediatric oncology team. But also thanks to the research and clinical trials that deliver cutting edge therapies, some of them still being tested, to patients of all ages. For more than 2 years, the team left no stones unturned. Unfortunately, despite all their efforts, the tumor took over and ended up taking the barely started life of our most precious jewel.
To try and give meaning to what she went through, to what we all went through, my wife and I agreed to donate brain and other organs tissue for research, so that going forward we can make sure that no other kids will have to go through what she went through, and no other parents will have to go through what we are going through.
But research needs more than tissue. It needs to be funded and for now it is severely underfunded, particularly pediatric cancer research which presents a set of challenges compare to cancer on adults. For this reason, I am kindly asking you, in memory of our Victoria, to donate to MSK Kids to fund pediatric cancer research what you would usually give for flowers when a friend, a colleague, a neighbour loses a loved one.
On behalf of our Victoria, Christine and I are thanking you for all the little Victorias who will benefit from your generous donation.
Christine & Guillaume Criloux
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