As a father my job was to protect and provide for my girls. My babygirl is suffering from Mycosis Fungoide (a rare form of skin cancer) because she is only 5 she doesn't really understand or like getting her treatments but I made sure that she knew that daddy was going to be there every step of the way and that what she felt I felt. It wasn't until recently when I myself had a freak accident and broke my neck and have been hospitalized since March 2022. At first, I didn't want my babies to see me because I was scared and I had no real control over my body and I had tubes and machines hooked up to me. I couldn't communicate verbally because of the tube in my throat. I am their daddy. Daddy is the strong one, the brave one their protector and at that moment their daddy was scared, confused and unsure of how my future would be. My baby girl was worried about me, she wanted to know if I could go to work if I could still do the laundry and make lunch. Take her to get her treatment, but she knows I am sick. My wife has been strong for my girls and me. I am blessed for that support. My oldest daughter just started high school and I couldn't be there for her 8th-grade dance or her first day of high school. I'm missing so many milestones being in this hospital, but one thing I learned from being in the airforce is adversity, strength, will and honor. While I no longer serve the VA staff and others never let me down. They are my biggest strength by teaching me to make the best of this situation and understand that once a soldier always a soldier. I'm a proud man but not a broken man. Now my wife is put in the situation of trying to figure out how we can get an adaptive vehicle big enough to transport me, my wife and our two daughters. I want to be able to take them to school and take her to her treatments and I may not be able to walk right now because I believe I will walk again. I can be there for my girls. I can be that protector and daddy they've always known me to be. I wrote this go fund me account because again I am not a broken man but a proud one. I don't have the support of an employer or medical benefits or 401K that you would get from an employer because I was starting my own technology business. I was the sole provider for my family as I should be. The day my daughter gave me her cape and said to me "Daddy you wear my cape because it will give you superpowers" I don't cry in front of my kids, but that night when I was alone in my hospital room I opened the flood gates because my baby girl who is fighting her own battle with cancer wanted to give me her superpowers. Now it means more than ever to me to get out of this hospital and get home to my girls and finish watching them grow up. My family and I appreciate any donations to help us get me home.