The Canadian Hero Terry Fox

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Terry Fox: The Journey The Canadian Hero Terry Fox died on the 28 of June 1981 in New Westminster, BC. Terry stopped running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario on September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometers. This wasn’t the end of his story, let’s go back to the beginning. Terence Stanley Fox was born on July 28, 1958, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver Canada. In his teenage years Terry was an active person playing baseball, soccer, rugby and basketball. He was so athletic that in grade 12 he won his high school's athlete of the year award along with his best friend Doug Alward. After high school, Terry was unsure if he wanted to go to University, Terry’s mother, Betty …show more content…

He crashed into the back of a pickup truck and his car was completely in ruins. Luckily Terry only came out of the accident with a sore right knee. About a month after the crash Terry felt more pain in that same knee but said he would ignore it till the end of his basketball season. But by March Terry could not take the pain anymore and finally went to the hospital. The doctor said that he had a form of cancer starting in his right knee. Terry had to get his knee amputated and have chemotherapy. Terry had a 50 percent survival rate that would have been 15 percent two years ago but not then for the improvement and value of cancer …show more content…

First of all was his 16 month Chemotherapy. After those 16 long months, Terry had to train. Terry started with 3 miles a day and long months after he was ready to embark on his run. Terry Fox started his run at the start of April 1980. Terry ran through 6 provinces for 143 days, but after those 5 373 kilometers,Terry started coughing and felt pain in his chest. Terry tried to keep going but just outside of Thunder Bay Terry had to stop running. His cancer had started to spread through his body. He told his brother to take him in the van to a hospital at the time and they rushed to the nearest hospital. But June 28 1981 about a year after Terry started running, Terry passed away in New Westminster. He died with his cancer at its worse and by catching pneumonia. He fell into a coma and passed away at Royal Columbian

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