B.C. teen gives back after fighting cancer [Video]

SOOKE, B.C. –

While Meredith Lecinana looks through a photo album remembering when her daughter was a baby, she can’t forget when her Lily became a patient.

“It’s very shocking,” Meredith says. “Nothing can prepare you for something like that.”

Lily Lecinana had just turned 10 when the rare, fast-growing blood cancer was diagnosed as Stage 4.

“I remember the doctor in my room,” Lily recalls. “I knew something was wrong because he had tears in his eyes.”

Lily was transported to a bigger hospital in a different city the next day, where she stayed for the next nine months.

“She was suffering a lot. In a lot of pain,” Meredith says. “It was really scary.”

Yet in between bouts of chemotherapy, Lily would perform countless acts of kindness for others — from singing uplifting karaoke songs to inspire the younger patients, to creating a hand-painted “joy jar” filled with gifts for the …