Terry Fox was born on July 28 1958, during his life he was a cancer activist up until his unfortunate death due to his cancer spreading to his lungs on June 28 1981. Terry Fox was the second child in a family of four, his parents’ names were Betty and Rolly Fox who met in Winnipeg where all four of their children were born Terry, Fred, Darrel and Judith. The Family then moved west and settled down in Port Coquitlam located near Vancouver. When he was a child he retained lifelong qualities that would benefit him later on in life such as his determination, patience and tenacious. Terry’s mother remembers seeing Terry as a toddler try to stack wooden blocks, usually they would fall over however he would keep stacking them until they stayed up.
This showed his determination at an early age. Terry Fox along with his brothers loved all sports and could spend hours playing games such as road Hockey and Baseball, they all loved the satisfaction of winning and they never played dirty. At a young age Terry Fox’s parents taught him and his brothers to have respect and manners and good behavior even in adulthood he would still address his family friends as Mr. and Mrs. or miss. The whole family was taught at a young age to have table manners no hats were allowed at the table, everyone had to clear their plates etc. They were expected to not get in trouble and everything wasn't just given to them. As a child Terry and his brothers had a berry picking job, they used the money earned from it to buy their new clothes and anything they wanted including toys.
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In Terry Fox’s house respect was a critical element. Terry Fox was very hard working especially when it came to sports in elementary school he played baseball with his brothers and classmates. Sometimes Terry would arrive an hour or half an hour early on the basketball court just to make sure he got some extra practice in and was on time. In high school the physical education instructor Bob McGill noticed two players one being Terry fox and the other being his friend Doug. He described Terry Fox as the little guy who worked super hard on every practice, he would be half an hour early Terry along with his friend Doug who both signed up for basketball however he was terrible at the sport Bob recalled. Bob McGill suggested that Terry should try out for the cross country team and start running however Terry Fox had no interest in running but he started training anyway because he had a lot of respect for the coach and wanted to prove himself.
Terry usually found the workouts exhausting but he pushed forward because he still wanted to play the sport, after three practices Mc Gill suggested that Terry should try out for wrestling instead of basketball. Terry however was still determined to stick with the sport even though he was way behind everyone on his team and only got two minutes of playtime. Terry persevered through sick days just to get to school because he didn't want to miss out on his classwork but mostly he wanted to play basketball. By grade ten Terry had earned a spot on the basketball team, he was a starting guard. In his school though Terry remembers being an average student even though he actually made it to the honor roll. Terry Fox graduated from port coquitlam high school with As and Bs, Terry wasn't sure he should go to university but his mother pushed him to go because it would help him so he enrolled at Simon Fraser University. He knew that the university at SFU had the best varsity team in British Columbia which attracted Terry.
Terry tried out for the team he said the two week tryout was very difficult and even though there were more talented players Terry was by far the most devoted to the sport, and thus made the team over some more talented players. In the year of 1976 Terry Fox first noticed the pain in his right leg, he thought it was a result of being rear ended in a truck accident, the pain returned in December but he thought it was the result of his extensive basketball training so he thought nothing of it. On March after a grueling run Terry Fox returned with a terrible pain so sore he could barely move. The next day Terry went to the family doctor to get a diagnosis the doctor suspected that it could be something serious so he was transferred to the Royal Columbian Hospital. At the hospital X-rays were taken and the doctor suspected that Terry may have osteogenic sarcoma which is a type of bone cancer. Terry Fox needed to have an amputation of his right leg followed by chemotherapy afterwards.
The next couple of days Terry Fox was surrounded by friends and family along his side. On March 7 1977 Terrys right leg was amputated and after a couple of weeks of receiver his new artificial leg Terry Fox in the summer of 1977 Terry Fox was invited to join a wheelchair Vancouver Cable Cars basketball team. He would later be chosen to compete on a team for the national wheelchair basketball team, Terry Fox played with the team for three years and won championships for the years he was on the team. During his months of Chemotherapy he saw children dying at the hospital. The night before his amputation Terry Fox read an article about a person running a marathon and Terry Fox knew that he wanted to run across the country of Canada to raise money for cancer research. Terry Fox decided to start his marathon of hope however his mother was highly against it because she didn't want her son to be hurt any more than he already had been with his cancer and she just wanted Terry Fox to recover. When Terry went to the Canadian Cancer society he didn't get much funding in the cancer society because they didn't think that Terry could run across Canada and actually raise enough money.
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