9th annual Noahs Bandage Run keeping Johnson County boys memory alive [Video]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – This Sunday is the 9th annual Noah’s Bandage Run. 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.

With the help of his mother Deborah, Wilson created the change …