After 30 plus years as a Neonatal Respiratory Therapist, I went to cooking school in Atlanta at the United States Personal Chefs Association Culinary Arts Institute. The idea was to slowly change jobs to become a Personal Chef. This was in 2002. His wife Patty and I started their own business, Fox Culinary Productions. In May of 2003, he contracted Viral Meningitis from one of the tiny babies he was caring for. In less than 48 hours Tom was in the dark totally. He has only slightly regained a small amount of vision back, just shapes and shadows. In 2004 Tom went back to Indian River State College, Culinary Arts Program to relearn how to be a Blind Chef. I graduated in December of 2005. Patty and Tom have been cooking ever since.
They have clients that they cook for every several weeks to performing in home cooking classes for kids to adults. They are in their sixth year of teaching kids cooking camp at the YMCA. They have had the pleasure of teaching all types of kids including visually and hearing impaired children.