Thomas J Cassella

My Name is Jim Rodimer .

My Great friend (and band mate from Quarter Pound Jones) Tom Cassella, was recently diagnosed with a rare brain disorder rendering him severely incapacitated. He has a wife and 2 Daughters and cannot work.

If you can find it in your heart to donate to this amazing , loving person, I am sure he would be so appreciative. If you can't then please take a few seconds and say a prayer for him and his family.:~)..or better yet...DO BOTH:~)

FAMILY...its an acronym for FORGET ABOUT ME I LOVE YOU Lets show Tom how BIG this Family is...

Thank you !!! May God Bless All

From Tom:

After announcing my medical condition on the 4th of July, my dearest friends put together a go fund me page to help with my financial situation. This is something that completely humbles me, and is a reality check that I was in complete denial of; I am really hurt and I can never work again.

I worked as a music teacher for special needs children for 12+ years. I loved my job, produced a total of 24 seasonal concerts, taught instrumental lessons along with general music classes; I loved my students, I had the best job in the world! My last day of work was 10/17/2020; the pain got so bad I couldn't think straight, my balance was deteriorating, I was putting myself at risk. So, I kept my teaching position as I could, but it was finally time to throw in the towel.

I had developed a Sound Healing Seminar with a coaching program; featuring my Flower of Music and Solfeggio Frequency Healing. My energy deteriorated and pain was too great to continue;

I am lead guitarist of Quarter Pound Jones, the best rock cover band in Morris County (imho). It was literally my dream to be a lead guitarist in a great band, and God Blessed me with this, I am so grateful. But the energy that is needed was more than I could handle and I had to withdraw myself from this position.

Everyone of these occupations was my creation in life, I love them dearly and it breaks my heart to loose them. I fought so hard for so long to maintain, but my brain disease took too much.

My condition is known as a bleeding Cavernous Angioma. It is a malformation of blood vessels that are very weak. No one knows how they are formed or what makes them bleed. They can occur anywhere in the brain, brainstem, and spinal chord. Mine are in my right pons of my brainstem. Every time it bleeds my neurological symptoms get worse. I have intractable throbbing pain in the center of my head. Sudden noises are like being hit with a bat in the head. My most recent bleed has made my entire left side of my body numb with pins and needles to varying degrees, my balance is awful, and my right eye went lame losing its lateral movement creating double vision.

Surgery is not an option for me as it is so deep into my brainstem that surgery could prove to be fatal and there are not guarantees of success.

Right now, my orders are to rest. There is a good chance that if this stops bleeding, my body will be able to heal itself one day. There is very little know about this disease and it's anybody's guess, but I am determined to be positive and see myself fully healed in my minds eye. I will also discover what God has planned for me; what is my new purpose in life with the gifts and abilities I have to serve humanity; and to thank God everyday for the opportunity to live my divine purpose.

If it wasn't for my family, amazing friends, and most of all my beautiful, loving, caring, and strong wife, Ginger, I honestly don't know where I'd be, the condition I'd be in with out her. Ginger is my biggest advocate and has been the glue to our family, she will never know the true extent of how much I love her and how grateful I am to have her in my life.

So as it stands, my temporary disability is over and am awaiting my hearing for permeant disability. I never dreamed I would ever have a go fund me created for me, but now that I do have one I wanted to give full disclosure of my life. But I am waking up to reality that we could really use the help. If you can, great! And if you can't, please send healing thoughts, they do more than you will ever know... Thank you for reading my story; as it's just the beginning of a brand new life. God Speed my friends <3