TODOS POR THOMAS

Thomas has been fighting leukemia since he was 9 years old.

It's been almost two years facing a painful treatment including, chemo, blood transfusions, pain killers, countless days in the hospital and hundreds of injections.

Thomas started to feel pain in the lower left part of his stomach, his skin started to turn pale, I knew it wasn’t normal, so I took him to the doctor, he took some tests that came out normal. However, as the days went by, the symptoms increased; Thomas experienced loss of appetite, fatigue, an extreme pain in his legs and swollen lymph nodes. It was impossible to get an urgent appointment with a pediatrician, and I decided to take him to general medicine and write down on an piece of paper all of his symptoms. This is when Dr. Lee decided to send him to Hospital de la Misericordia.

On June 16, 2021, the oncologists found blast cells in a blood test, and Thomas was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The doctors also made a bone marrow biopsy to confirm the diagnosis. Thomas was chemotherapy treatment for seven months.

On January 20, 2022, it was his last intravenous chemotherapy, we were so happy by then. We started oral chemotherapy, but eight months later there was a relapse in his bone marrow. The doctors suggested a bone marrow transplant due to an unexpected relapse. They performed rescue chemotherapy to which Thomas no longer responded. The oncologists told me that there was no longer any available treatment for Thomas and suggested to take him home and enjoy the last moments with him.

There was a feeble glint of promise at the Hospital San Juan de Dios in Barcelona, Spain, where there is new class of treatment called CAR-T therapies. I already made a virtual appointment to look at Thomas' health conditions and determine if I will be able to travel with him and start this new therapy. This is the one and only hope I have, but unfortunately the cost of this treatment is out of my reach.

I kindly ask for your collaboration; every little will help to save my son’s life and as a mother I hope you understand what that means... I will be forever grateful.

Desde los 9 años Thomas lucha contra una leucemia.

Ya pasaron casi dos años de un doloroso tratamiento difícil de soportar, quimioterapias, transfusiones, medicamentos, muchos días hospitalizado y muchos pinchazos. Muchos!!!

Thomas empieza con un dolor abdominal en la parte baja izquierda, palidez, lo llevo al médico y los exámenes salían con normalidad,al pasar los días los síntomas aumentaban, perdida de apetito, cansancio, dolor en las piernas y ganglios linfaticos inflamados alrededor del cuello, nuevamente sacamos cita y con pediatría había dos meses después, decido sacarla con medicina general y escribir todos los síntomas en un papel, en el momento que el médico Lee decide remitirnos al hospital de la misericordia.

El 16 de junio de 2021 después de un exámen de sangre un oncologo sale y dice que vio blastos en la muestra de sangre, que en su experiencia es leucemia linfoblastica aguda, realizaron una biopsia en la médula para confirmar el diagnóstico. Se inicia tratamiento de quimioterapia por 7 meses y el 20 de enero de 2022,tocamos la campana por la última quimioterapia intravenosa, iniciamos la fase de mantenimiento con quimioterapia oral, 8 meses después recaída en medula osea en dónde informan que se debe hacer trasnplante de médula por ser una recaida temprana, realizan quimioterapias de rescate a la cual Thomas ya no responde, desafortunadamente no se logra remision y los oncologos me informan que ya no hay tratamiento para Thomas, que lo lleve a casa y lo disfrute.

Surge una luz de esperanza en el hospital San Juan de Dios Barcelóna España ,en dónde hay un nuevo método CAR-T, ya me contacte y tenemos la cita telemática para mirar las condiciones de Thomas y poder viajar, está es la única esperanza que tenemos, este tratamiento está fuera de nuestro alcance.

Pido su colaboración, cada granito de arena será de bendición para salvar a mi hijo...estaré eternamente agradecida.