Halifax will host the 44th Terry Fox Run at Point Pleasant Park this Sunday, September 15th.
Registration starts at 9am with the run beginning at 10am that’s open to everyone!
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 chemotherapy and that removal of the tumor would be sufficient.
So, something good came out of something bad. Trent is now 25, six feet tall and a Dalhousie Engineering student.
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.
To date over $800 million dollars has been raised in Terry Fox’s name.
(Above: Meeting Rick Hansen in 2011 and at the 2017 Terry Fox Run.)
See ya this Sunday, September 15th and thanks again Terry.
-Ian
(Credits: Ian Robinson photos.)
