Betty Fox: The right mom for a tough job  Betty Fox, who died
Friday morning, speaking to a young participant at the Terry Fox
Hometown Run in Port Coquitlam. - Tri-City News file photo
— image credit: Tri-City News file photo  Betty Fox was a tough
lady.  No, check that. Betty Fox was a mom who had to be tough.
Four kids, three boys. Working-class Port Coquitlam.  Her
second-youngest son is diagnosed with cancer. His leg is
amputated.  That's enough to deal with. That's enough for a
lifetime.  But the boy pushes. He saw things on the cancer ward.
Just going on with his life minus one leg isn't enough.  In the
kitchen of their PoCo home a day after he completes a 17-mile
run, he tells her his plan to run across Canada — a marathon a
day on one good leg and a prosthesis to raise money for cancer
research.  Betty reacts like a mom. We don't know the precise
words but they approximate "Are you nuts?"  She tells him it's a
stupid idea and he's smarter than that. She tells him no able-
bodied person has ever run f