Hardworking Father and husband with broken back.

Billy Joe Smith is a 59 year old, hard working handyman. He has been a handyman is whole life and uses those skills to make a living. He raised 4 kids using these skills. Mostly living paycheck to paycheck, hustling handyman work.

Recently, Billy Joe, fell off a ladder while doing a job for a client and fractured his L1, L2 and L3. The injury is a wedged compression fracture of the L1 that slammed down onto the L2 and collapsing it onto his L3.

Unfortunately, Billy Joe will need to have surgery in order to get this properly fixed. The Docs suggest the Kyphoplasty... non-invasive just two incisions they go in and put balloons in and then fill them with a pasty compound called PMMA. Which hardens and creates an internal cast inside of the fractured vertebra.

With this comes bills. Due to Billy Joe being injured, he is not able to work as a handyman in order to pay his bills.

I am setting up this fundraiser to try and relieve some of the stress of having bills looming over the head of a healing man. In order to properly heal, Billy Joe needs to take the time to rest and properly recover. Any help in relieving financial stresses will help in his recovery.

His children are doing everything they can to help out in these trying times, to include setting up this page for him. Billy Joe is a prideful man and finds it extremely difficult to ask anybody for help.

Any donations will go directly into helping Billy Joe recover and get back on his feet. This will help with medical bills, and to cover his personal bills during recovery!

He is a hard working man that loves his wife, dogs, kids and g-babies. Anything to help get this man back on his feet to live life to the fullest is greatly appreciated!

As his son, I would like to personally thank anybody that helps with this cause. I will do anything i can to help him and thank you for helping. He may be to prideful to ask for help, but i am not. We are also trying to move him closer to us kids in order to help with is needs during recovery!

Thank you in advance!!