Placentia man with brain cancer completes Ironman triathlon

When it was over, and he had fought through the pain and the vomit and the doubt, he dropped to his knees and hugged his daughter.
He had done it for her, to send her a message that will resonate long after he’s gone.
“If I can do it, you can do it,” Jay Hewitt said with his arms around his 5-year-old at the finish line of his own personal Ironman triathlon. “Thinking about you gave me the strength to keep going.”
He wasn’t talking about the Ironman, in which