Jonny’s Big Swim – Late July/Early August, date TBD

The goal is to swim from Grand Beach to Gimli, Manitoba. The distance is approximately 26 km.

Why? To celebrate the fifth anniversary of my stem cell transplant for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and raise money for The Alberta Cancer Foundation and the CancerCare Manitoba Foundation.

I was first diagnosed with NHL in 1999 and treated with Chemotherapy in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the Health Sciences Centre. Things went well and I was cancer free for 20 years and then I had a reoccurrence in 2019. On January 10^th, 2020 I underwent a stem cell transplant at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary and here we are 5 years later!

Walking into the new Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre made me feel very happy that Calgary had such a wonderful place for cancer patients treatment and support. I also realized that the building and equipment are still not enough and funds are continuously needed for the vital research and the next breakthrough. I hope to raise money with this swim to help continue the good work of research against all forms of cancer.