Hello my name is Thomas Exler, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Climbing the stairs at a waterfall in Iceland in May of 2011

For many years now, I have had been given a great opportunity to meet so many amazing people from all over the world, not in spite of, but because I was born with a rare birth defect called bladder exstrophy.  My life has had numerous blessings because of it, and on the whole the blessings have gratefully outweighed all the negatives I have had to personally endure