Thomas’s Story

Site created on April 18, 2020

Welcome to my CaringBridge website. I am using it to keep family and friends updated in one place. I appreciate your support, prayers,  and words of hope and encouragement. It is also a place where you can share with me recipes for cancer patients, offers for transportation, look at my current photos, and follow my upcoming journal. I thank you for visiting. I began my journey with 'active' Multiple Myeloma on 31 March 2020 and am currently undergoing the prescribed chemotherapy regimen for this incurable cancer of the bone marrow plasma cells (which make antibodies.) I have the best care team in this part of the country, at UT Health/MD Anderson  at the Mays Cancer Centre in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Matthew Butler and his team are 'the best'...and I thank them. God bless you all.

Newest Update

Journal entry by Anne Lorys

UPDATE: Directly from Tom, here is what the week ahead holds for him. This is Tom speaking…

 
“Thanks everyone...and thanks too for deep sedation for the bone marrow biopsy. I’m undergoing these 3 days of testing to make sure I’m healthy enough for the transplant. Then a psycho-social assessment with the social worker. 
 
I hope that being open with what is going on with me will in some way help others struggling with trying to have the best cancer care in this age of the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has affected our ability to schedule and access care this past year and the patients that I interact with will certainly be happy when it is resolved. 
 
All is going well with me...the meds do cause some side effectsfatigue, GI issues, skin problems, neuropathies, peripheral edema, anemia, electrolyte imbalances, but all are mostly controllable. You are all a God-sent blessing to me and I am overwhelmed with gratitude for your generosity. You will be in my continuing prayers.”
 
Please continue to donate if you are able. 
Love to you all~Anne
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