Jesse Walker is not your average 18 year old.
In 2018, he was diagnosed with a medulla blastoma – a form of brain cancer — and underwent a successful 12-hour craniotomy to have the tumour removed. That was followed by 30 doses of spinal and cranial radiation, and then 40 doses of chemotherapy. His recovering included 16 admissions to hospital and 79 nights in hospital beds. He had 16 blood transfusions
Thankfully, he’s been cancer free for 4 years as of this month.
He decided in 2020 that he wanted to do something to raise money for childhood cancer research. So he planned and executed a half marathon. He had such a great response that he did it again in 2021 and 2022. This year, he’s preparing to complete an Olympic Triathlon which is 1.5-kilometre swim, 40-km bike and 10-km run.
He will be completing the challenge this Saturday, July 29th.
In the past 3 years he’s raised over $75,000. This year he hopes to raise $23,500 which would put him up to $100,000.00.
Jesse will be headed to Wilfred Laurier University in the fall to study health sciences with a goal of some day becoming a pediatric oncologist or a pediatrician.
If you are able to make a donation to help Jesse with his fundraising, click HERE.
In case you missed the interview, you can here it here:
