Reply #13: in Canada, Terry Fox gave us a great gift ...

[Lisa]

Not just the millions of dollars for cancer research and education, raised by his "Marathon of Hope" in the early 1980s, or the attention he brought which spawned a wave of interest in "sport" prothetic limbs (just because you're an amputee doesn't mean you're confined to a wheelchair, which sadly enough was a widespread public attitude which even active teenagers who'd lost a leg or arm would come up against).

Hundreds and thousands of people began to call themselves cancer survivors. It wasn't something to be whispered about any longer, as if the person were already dead. The openness also helped contribute to early detection, and prevention. I know dozens of people who have successfully fought cancer ... family members, co-workers, even the woman who leads BC's opposition party in the Legislature.

Here's to Elizabeth! An election campaign, in its own way, is as challenging as running thousands of miles on a prosthetic leg, like Terry did.