My Cancer Story
Prologue
I am currently 38 years old, married to a wonderful woman, Melissa, and have two great sons, Joe and Jack who are 10 and 6 years old. I am an attorney who graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.B.A. in Finance in 1990 and a J.D. (law degree) in 1993. I was self employed from 1993 through 2005, and then I worked for the City of Des Moines from 2005 until I became unable to work in 2006. As of the date that I have begun writing this, I have been given 17 months to live. I am feeling overwhelmed right now—I am trying to pack a lifetime worth of experiences for myself and my family into the next twelve months or so (while I am still relatively healthy) while simultaneously working on this story, applying for disability insurance, writing goodbye letters to my boys and wife, planning my wake and funeral, and seeing to financial arrangements. Plus my fantasy football draft is in 13 days. J
Tom Clarke
August 10, 2006
Des Moines, Iowa
1 comment:
Hi Tom,
I got here through Lori's blog (toosexyformyhair). I just wanted to drop a note and say hello. Please ignore the statistics! There are a lot of people who were given very bad prognoses but are still around now. I'll be here reading your blog and cheering you on :)
The lchelp.com forums offers great support as well.
Sincerely,
Frances
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