Everyone who knows Thomas, knows that he has never met a stranger, before and after his stroke. His position as a industrial business development manager for a design-build, construction company was a perfect fit. He had brought in 90 percent of the work in 2013, and 2014 was looking good. He traveled most of the Southeastern coast, visiting with potential clients, getting to know them personally as well as professionally.
It was May of 2014 when Thomas was asked by his manager to go to Florida to visit a few targeted plant sites to determine if his company could offer their services. The plan was for us to drive to Florida by way of Charleston, call on a few of his established clients, and drive to the Tampa Bay area to visit with my recently widowed mother for Mother’s Day. I would stay in Florida and fly to the home front at a later time. He would drive to northern Florida, call on those targeted accounts, then drive home.