Dear Tom, My name is Pecoleia and it is a miracle that i was able to celebrate my fifty-first birthday last month. I was born with a severe form of sickle cell disease, which presented during my infancy and has put me in one health catastrophe after another. My doctors said that i would […]
Dear Tom, I am a single mother of three beautiful children, ages 3, 5, and 10. They are my life. I also work and attend school full-time for criminal justice. For the last three years, I’ve had to be at work at four in the morning at the women’s prison, which means I drag my […]
Hi Tom Joyner, My name is Sarah Richardson from Mobile, Alabama and I listen to your show every morning. I lost my job in December 2008, when the company I was working for, Georgia Pacific, closed its doors. I have been everywhere looking and applying for jobs and I have gone on a lot of […]
Dear Tom, Two years ago, my great niece, Cierra went in for surgery to correct the curvature of her spine. the surgery was not successful and at only twelve years-old— she was left paralyzed from the waist down. she has since undergone a second surgery, which was also unsuccessful and she is confined to a […]
Dear Tom, My name is Teoka and i am at my wits end.I cared for my ailing mother up until her passing in February 2012.The next month, in March 2012, my twenty-two year-old little brother, Terrell–who is autistic and non-verbal–became very sick. He was diagnosed with a rare cancer called neuroendocrine carcinoma of the pancreas, […]
Tom awards a $2,000 dollar giftcard to a family to buy school supplies.
Greetings Mr. Joyner: My husband J.T. George, is a retired, twenty-three year veteran firefighter who had never been sick in his life until a year ago when he was stricken with Mesothelioma, a very rare and aggressive form of lung cancer, caused by exposure to asbestos. J.T. underwent a 10-hour surgery to remove thousands of […]
TJMS awards Tacco Cullins, a single mother of 11, with this weeks Christmas Wish. Dear Tom, Yesterday, I was interviewed by Jacque Reid and talked to you, Sybil and j. Anthony Brown about my desperate situation. My name is Tacco Cullins and i am a thirty-four year-old single mother of eleven children, ages two to […]
Dear Tom, My name is Karen Young from Vandalia, Michigan. I have a son named James who was born six months premature and developed cerebral palsy. During his time in the hospital his weight dropped to 15 ounces and I was told that if he survived his infancy, most likely he would not live past […]
Hello Mr. Tom, Mr. J. and Ms. Sybil: My sisters and I are writing you to grant our mother, Jenia Riley a Christmas wish. Our mother is the strongest woman in the world, because she has been through so much. In April of 2009, she lost her mother and then that October, her father died. […]
Dear Tom Joyner: In September 2011, I found out I was pregnant at the age of 37 with my first baby. I was so excited, but my happiness quickly turned to a life and death struggle when I developed complications early into my pregnancy due to high blood pressure, which caused severe problems for me […]
