On March 24th, 2024, there was a celebration of life for my brother at Mountain View Cemetery’s Celebration Hall. Adam Rohrlick, a close friend of Tom, helped some of Tom’s musician friends create the event. (Without Adam, especially, this event could not have happened as I was quarantined with COVID and also grief.) Tom Keenlyside […]
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A Celebration of Life for Tom
Sadly, Tom died at home in February, 2024, having done everything he could to survive leukemia, a stem cell transplant and the ravages of graft versus host disease. He had been cared for through his illness and the pandemic by his beloved husband Melvin So and the bone marrow transplant team at VGH. (Please sign […]
Hair (finally) coming back — first pic!
Now he can watch tv without his head sticking to the sofa, just in time for his birthday — March 3rd. (This post was obviously written by Tom’s mischievous sister)
100 Days
Good news! Tom made it through the first critical 100 days post-transplant and his bone marrow biopsy showed that his leukemia is in remission. The donor stem cells have begun to make new blood cells, and Tom now has a healthy level of platelets and hemoglobin. As often happens, the donated immune system is over-exuberantly […]
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