I hadn’t thought about Travis Roy recently. But I should have. We all should have. Going through these uncertain times, ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic with no resolution in sight, it certainly tests our resolve and resilience. People have lost loved ones, jobs and the freedoms we enjoyed seemingly a lifetime ago. What Travis Roy had to deal with forced him to call upon every fiber of resilience in his mind, and his paralyzed body, to have a life. Roy, a Yarmouth native who was a paraplegic, died Thursday at the age of 45 due to complications stemming from a procedure designed to enable him to maintain his quality of life. He was a hockey player with high aspirations.

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