The 45th annual Halifax Terry Fox Run for cancer research is coming up this Sunday, September 14th.
This year’s theme is “Finish It” a quote from Terry during his last days during the Marathon of Hope in 1980.
Since the Halifax run began in 1982, it has raised over $900,000. for cancer research.
The annual Terry Fox Run has become a fall tradition in Canada, with more than 650 Canadian communities.
To date worldwide over $900 million dollars has been raised in Terry’s name.
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 26 and six feet tall!
Here are a few pictures with my family over the years at the Halifax Terry Fox runs:
(Above: 2017 and 2011 when Rick Hanson was the special Halifax run guest.)
(Above: pics from 2005 including when we met Darrell Fox, Terry’s brother.)
To find a run in your area click HERE.
I’ve been honoured since 2007 to be asked to MC the Halifax run at Point Pleasant Park, so we’ll see you this Sunday, registration is at 9 with the run at 10 am.
See ya this Sunday and thanks again Terry.
-Ian
Credits: @TerryFoxCanada & Ian Robinson photo
