St. Jude Thompsons Story
C1 3 st.
Jude dream home giveaway.
This year's st.
Jude dream home, is being built in the homeplace subdivision off polo club boulevard in lexington.
When you buy your $100 dollar ticket for the raffle.... all the money goes to st.
Jude children's reserch hospital, helping children like thompson... who you will meet now..
A storybook can relate to people in different ways.
And i look at thompson as his journey, as a storybook, and one day he can tell his story, and he can use it to touch people's lives.
And i think storybooks are wrote to touch people's lives, and i hope thompson's story touches someone like a storybook would does.
Thompson was born 2012 and he was a great pregnancy and he was going to be a great little brother.
We were so excited he was coming into our world.
He was a very calm baby.
Everybody was bragging on how good he was, so he was a very sweet baby.
But there was always something that struck me and my husband, and it was something special about thompson, but we never knew what it was.
Thompson was six months old when he was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma.
The days leading up to his diagnosis, we noticed the white reflexes in his eyes.
So i called my local eye doctor.
She examined his eyes and found a large mass in his left eye.
She did not see anything in his right eye at the time.
Well, the next day we were on our way to birmingham, alabama to see a doctor there.
He confirmed it in both eyes actually.
It was a large mass in the left eye and smaller tumors in the right eye.
The left eye was far worse.
And the next day we were on the phone with st.
Jude.
St.
Jude, when they called me back, that was the most relief i felt the past couple of days because it was such a whirlwind of emotions.
The lady that i spoke to calmed me down.
She made me feel wonderful about coming to st.
Jude.
Everything would be ready and we would get the ball rolling with thompson and take care of thompson.
And i sat on the phone with her for close to an hour and i was sobbing and she was just guiding me in the right direction, and i'll never forget that.
Duff: we're told that our son had cancer.
First thoughts are being worried about him and if he's going to survive and those types of things.
And then your second thought is, how do we pay for it?
And how do we want to continue to pay our house, bills?
Missy: finances can be such a burden for many families and especially going through cancer with a child is overwhelming enough.
So when i can come here, get the care i need for thompson, go home and enjoy him at home, and i have to ever worry about a bill, i feel extremely blessed.
And it's all because of the donors, the people that have no idea any of the kids that are here, but they still donate money.
His chemo was complete in january.
He had his mri last month and it showed clear scans and his eyes are doing great, but cancer is never over.
I just feel like thompson was the hero and that special person that i always knew he was and i never knew what it was until he was diagnosed.
Cancer was that mountain that we just had that push out of the way and get over, and with help from god and help from his family, we've been able to push that mountain and go over that mountain and we're not looking back.
Thompson comes out feeling great, feeling good.
He beat it.
That cancer is back way behind us and he's beat it with flying colors and we're just going to keep on fighting, just like thompson has taught us to.
Because of st.
Jude... thompson's family... like all c1 3 the other families at st.
Jude children's research hospital, .... never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food.
Fs still img:dream-homeinfofull-720.jpg call 1-800-382-7512 or go to dreamhome- dot-org today....to enter the drawing for the dreamhome, and help children like thompson.
And if you enter today.... you have the chance at the bonus prize... a john deere mower.
The drawing for all the great prizes, is august 13th.
We'll be back after the break.