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Veteran and Father of special needs son needs help

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This is my Husband Ben. On Wednesday October 4th he suffered a fall over a deck railing while at work and landed on his head, causing his neck to break at C4-C6. This caused a spinal cord injury and damaged his nerves greatly to his right arm leaving it paralyzed except for finger tip movements. He was air lifted to Iowa city hospital where he had an emergency surgery to fuse his neck, but the damage to his nerves remain the same. There is a second neck surgery possibly to put screws and pins in the back of his neck, but unknown at this time. He is currently in the ICU at Iowa City Hospital but even with the best care, has a very, VERY, long road to recovery requiring extensive hours of PT and OT for his arm, neck and even walking.
Ben is the main bread winner of the house and now due to his extensive injuries he is unable to work for any unforeseen amount of time. We already have a special needs son that requires ample amounts of therapies before all of this happened. This injury/recovery will be a devastating blow to our family in terms of needs as well as finances. 
One month worth of savings will not cover medical bills, home bills or even the expense of driving back and forth to see him. I don’t know of any adequate amount of support to ask for, but please donate whatever you can. Thank you very much.
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Donations 

  • Todd DaBillo
    • $25
    • 11 mos
  • Anonymous
    • $100
    • 11 mos
  • Tom Asby
    • $200
    • 11 mos
  • John Guehlstorff III
    • $10
    • 1 yr
  • Rochelle Smith
    • $50
    • 1 yr
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Organizer

Terese Wallace
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Davenport, IA

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