KCTV 5: 9th annual Noah's Bandage Run keeping Johnson County boy's memory alive
By Nydja Hood
The 9th annual Noah’s Bandage Run took place on April 14. The 5k race honors the memory of Noah Wilson, a 7-year-old Johnson County boy who lost his battle to cancer in 2015.
“Noah was a happy kid. He was healthy. He loved sports, loved the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs and he was just a busy kid, but his heart, he just had a heart to help others,” said Noah’s mother Deborah Wilson.
Wilson was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in April 2014 and underwent many treatments. He found comfort in the creativity of a bandage.
“He was poked and prodded multiple times and asked the nurse one day, do you have a fun band-aid, that you could put on and unfortunately they didn’t, they just had the plain ones,” she said.
In the 10 years since the project launched, they’ve fundraised $1.7 million for childhood cancer research at Children’s Mercy. It’s the hospital where Wilson received care before he passed away.
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