The 43rd annual Terry Fox Run for cancer research is coming up on Sunday, September 17th.
I’ve so been honoured since 2007 to be asked to MC the Halifax run at Point Pleasant Park.
(Above: Ian MC’s the Halifax 2022 Terry Fox Run.)
The annual Terry Fox Run has become a fall tradition in Canada, with more than 650 Canadian communities, big and small, fundraising for cancer research.
To date over $850 million dollars has been raised in Terry’s name.
(Above: 2022 Halifax Terry Fox Run participants.)
Our Son Trent above, wearing his Terry’s Team Member red t-shirt, is a cancer survivor of a Stage 1 Wilms Tumor.
In July 1999, he was diagnosed at four months and lost his right kidney due to the tumor that was the size of a lemon.
Trent’s tumor was sent from the IWK here in Halifax to a lab in Vancouver to be diagnosed and the project funded by money raised from the Terry Fox Foundation!
The study revealed that if a child with the same diagnosis today would no longer have to go through chemo therapy and that removal of the tumor would be sufficient.
So something good came out of something bad. Trent is now 24 and six feet tall!
Here are a few pictures with my family over the years at the Halifax Terry Fox runs:
To find a run in your area click HERE.
See ya Sunday, September 17th and thanks again Terry.
-Ian
Credits: @TerryFoxCanada