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After being diagnosed with four aggressive brain tumours, Rheanna Trepanier, 10, is trying to get as many things as she can knocked off her bucket list before Christmas.

“Time is very precious to us right now,” said Marissa Trepanier, Rheanna’s mother. “I know right now she is talking and walking and up for doing certain things, so to get this done while she is still healthy enough and can do this is very important to me.”

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The first signs that something was seriously wrong came on Halloween.

“My eyes were hurting, and then I got sick to my stomach. I went to the office and called my mom,” said Rheanna.

“When I looked at her, I knew she wasn’t right and something was seriously wrong,” Marissa said.

She rushed her daughter to the Stollery Children’s Hospital where, after about an hour of tests, the doctors told her the bad news.

“They said that I had four brain tumours,” Rheanna said.

Rheanna underwent emergency surgery to relieve the pressure on her brain, the first of three serious brain surgeries she would endure over 12 days.