9-year-old Jazalyn Moses<\/a>.<\/p>\n“If I hear of a child with cancer in a certain area and I get permission to walk for them, then I will do a walk for that child and try to raise awareness to help them with their cancer and their cancer battle,\u201d Hickey told CNY Central in June, before his walk began.<\/p>\n
Just three days into the journey, Hickey went to sleep in Herkimer, N.Y. and fell sick. Doctors at Little Falls Hospital told him he had a stroke. But that didn’t stop him.<\/p>\n
“The doctors in Little Falls told me my walking was pretty much done for a year, that I should stay off the road, but the doctors over in Syracuse, when I went there, told me something different,” said Hickey. <\/p>\n
“They told me to give it a month, two months at the most, and when you start feeling better, you can get back out on the road. So, I just decided it was time to finish her walk, because you know if you break a promise to a nine-year-old girl with cancer, that’s a one-way ticket to hell, and I’m not going there.”<\/p>\n
Hickey told WKTV that he’s already back on the road and headed toward Clinton, N.Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. \u2014 Jim Hickey is on his way to complete his 100-mile walk for a young girl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-814390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}