The Cancer Card Xchange: January 2012

Overwhelmed with gratitude,

Emily T. Thomas

To Donate Gift Cards

The Cancer Card Xchange is a 501c3 tax-exempt charity.

CCX collects monetary and gift card donations and then distributes gift cards to verified cancer patients simply to brighten their day.

Please consider donating unused gift cards that may have gone unused - since 2005, the TowerGroup research firm estimates, about $41 billion worth of money on gift cards has gone unclaimed.

Gift cards may be mailed to:

Emily T. Thomas

The Cancer Card Xchange

PO Box 1004

Collierville, TN 38027

Or for online gift card orders:

Emily T. Thomas

The Cancer Card Xchange

1772 Cypress Springs Lane

Collierville, TN 38017

Direct questions to

info@cancercardxchange.org

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Where It All Began

The idea for this really began in 2007 while on a trip with my husband to my very first appointment at MD Anderson in Houston, Texas, hundreds of miles from my home in Collierville, Tennessee.

I was referred to MD Anderson by my ENT in Memphis after a biopsy revealed squamous cell carcinoma on my tongue. I was pregnant with my 4th son at the time. I had successful surgery at MD Anderson and returned for checkups there every few months for 2 years.

On that first trip to Houston, friends of ours arranged for a gift card to be waiting for us at a popular Mexican restaurant, Pappasitos, in Houston. For good luck, we ate there on every subsequent visit. To this day, that simple gesture of kindness and generosity stands out in my mind more than any of the 2 years' worth of CT scans and doctor's appointments.

Today, I am a healthy wife and mother to 4 sons. My hope is simply that through this endeavor, other cancer patients will remember a bright spot along their journey.

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