Despite going through difficult and painful medical treatments for leukemia, 7-year old Ava Caron still managed to get excited when watching figure skaters on TV.

Ava was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia, a type of cancer in the blood, in 2007. She spent most of her time undergoing treatment and staying at home watching TV. In the moments that she felt good enough, she said that it was always figure skating that boosted her spirits. She added that watching skaters dancing and seemingly soaring in the air had a calming effect on her, in a way helping her fight the cancer.

Ava’s mother Anne recalled spending nights dancing and twirling around the house, reenacting the figure skaters’ routine with her other daughters, Hannah, who was 5 at the time, and Ella, who was only 2.

Now that Ava’s medical treatment is complete and she’s officially cancer-free, one of her longtime wishes will be coming true this year.

Thanks to Canada’s Children’s Wish Foundation, Ava can take her love for figure skating to new heights – the organization will be sending this family from Cambridge to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, taking place on February.

Anne said Ava might not be able to grasp the magnitude of the event, but she knows her daughter will be happy to see figure skaters in the flesh.