Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Thom a ranar 13 ga Yuni, 1986, a Burnaby, British Columbia, tare da spina bifida da hydrocephalus wanda ke haifar da ruwa a cikin kwakwalwa. A sakamakon haka, ya yi tiyata sau hudu a cikin kwanaki 10 na farko na rayuwarsa kuma kodayake ya koyi tafiya ta hanyar shekaru biyu, ci gaban girma yana nufin yana buƙatar ƙarin tiyata don ƙwayar kashin baya. Thom da iyalinsa sun koma Mississauga lokacin da yake dan shekara hudu kuma ya fara tseren keken hannu a lokacin da yake dan shekara 10 bayan da aka yi wahayi zuwa gare shi ta hanyar 1500m a lokacin Summer Paralympics na 1996
Ka yi haƙuri. Mahaifinsa, Ken, ya horar da shi har zuwa mutuwarsa a 2017 sakamakon hatsarin nutsewa.