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22.05.2022 - 16:21 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots dad is set to ride 3,500km to raise money for Cure Leukaemia after his young daughter was diagnosed with cancer.
Allan Dickson, 54, from Newton Mearns, begins The Tour 21 on Friday, June 24, riding 100 miles per day until Sunday, July 17.
It comes after his daughter Liv, 14, was diagnosed with cute lymphoblastic leukaemia in November 2020, when she was just 12.
Allan spoke to Glasgow Live about the stresses of Liv's treatment as well as how proud he is of Liv for coping with the disease.
He also explained his arduous training for the cycling event, which will see him follow the same route as the Tour de France.
Allan, who is a recruitment consultant and married to Abigail, 46, said: "She was 12, and had to quit her gymnastics for a while because she dislocated her knee four or five times. What they found was that the back of her knee hadn't developed properly.
"Because it was during lockdown, I tried to get her an appointment with the doctor, an online appointment.
"Ironically, that day she had been diagnosed, I had an appointment with the doctor. So she had gone to school that day, and she had a temperature, and the school thought she had covid.
"My wife picked her up and took her for the covid test, in the meantime I had a conversation with the doctor and discussed her symptoms.
"I said that 'maybe I sound like a paranoid parent, but I'm just concerned there's maybe more to this than growing pains'."
The doctor told Allan she would like Liv to be taken in for tests, after speaking with a colleague.
Meanwhile, the doctor testing Liv for covid also decided that she needed a further assessment after there were marks found on her legs, which is another sign of leukaemia.
After tests at Queen Elizabeth University
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