By Pepper Parr
September 12th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
As long as there is a Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research there should be a Team Casey taking part.
And there will be this year – with a bit of a difference.
You had to know him – you had to spend time with him – and you were always better for it. A true champion – taken from us far too early. Bryna, pictured below, is doing what he would have wished – take care of others. Theirs was a shared love that could be appreciated and envied.
In previous years, it was family and friends getting together to do the run in support of the Terry Fox Foundation, of which Team Casey was a major part. Every year Casey would be there with his daughter on his shoulders and wife Bryna alongside wearing the Team T-shirt.
There will still be a Team Casey but under the new formal name of Team Casey Support Network, which is the name of a not-for-profit that Bryna Casey created to support families dealing with critical illness.
The children have grown up and have lives of their own. Mom will be running – and hopefully the kids will be there with her.
Casey Cosgrove often had a couple of hundred people walking with him. In this photograph his daughter is at his side with his niece on his shoulders.
Bryna Cosgrove.
There is something incredible about the human spirit. To deal with the loss, the personal grief and getting your kids through it – and in time being able to help others deal with what you had to deal with.
We salute people like that – and be grateful that they are among us.
It is wonderful to see that Bryna Cosgrove has started a not-for-profit to support families dealing with critical illness.
Many feel that once a person has gone through the treatment dealing with cancer or other illnesses life goes on as usual. This is not true.
For many it is after treatment as well that they need support.
Living with a critical illness is as stressful as going through the treatment.