Power of one..

Over the weekend, saw a movie based on a true story about a young man who had to cut off his leg because of bone cancer. His name was Terry Fox. When he got out of the hospital and got used to using an artificial leg. He decided to run across Canada to raise awareness and money for Cancer research. This was in the late 70's, so the artificial leg is not that advance yet.

He and his friend set out the journey. At first there were dissapointments cause not many publicity but he kept on going. He never gave up. Later on his brother joined and a guy from the cancer foundation joined too, things began to look up. He ran until he could not run anymore because the cancer had spread all over but what he did had raise hope, awareness and money for cancer research.

It all started with just one person with a lot of heart.

About Terry Fox

Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canada's west coast. An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches) above the knee in 1977.
While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope.

After 18 months and running over 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) to prepare, Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980 with little fanfare. Although it was difficult to garner attention in the beginning, enthusiasm soon grew, and the money collected along his route began to mount. He ran 42 kilometres (26 miles) a day through Canada's Atlantic provinces, Quebec and Ontario.

It was a journey that Canadians never forgot.

However, on September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 miles), Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario because cancer had appeared in his lungs. An entire nation was stunned and saddened. Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at age 22.

The heroic Canadian was gone, but his legacy was just beginning.

To date, more than $400 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry's name through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across Canada and around the world.

http://www.terryfoxrun.org/english/about%20terry%20fox/default.asp?s=1