Blackfalds teen named honourary chair for local Gutsy Walk
It’s been a long road for Evan Lee, and he’s just 13-years-old.
Evan, who lives in Blackfalds and goes to Iron Ridge Junior, is the honourary chair for this year’s Gutsy Walk, which takes place June 4 at McKenzie Trails to raise funds and awareness for Crohn’s and Colitis Canada.
Diagnosed first with colitis, one of two forms of IBD, it took nearly a decade of symptoms for doctors to reach that conclusion.
“We had a surgery to remove the large intestine. A few months later, I was starting to have some symptoms again, so we went in thinking it was just an infection in the modified small intestine, but it turned out it was actually Crohn’s,” Evan explains.