My father Tim (Timmy) had a stroke in April. He's home relearning how to walk while medical bills and living expenses pile up. He was laid off last November and had only just started interviewing for a new job when it happened.

But to understand why we're fighting so hard for him, you need to know who he is.

Timmy has spent his life building the impossible for others — saving homes and people who never even knew they needed saving. He can build a basement under an already standing home. He has traveled the country removing hazardous materials from the environment. He was operating heavy equipment before he even had a learner's permit.

Timmy has always worked and always found a new path when life demanded one.

Let me share a memory from my childhood.

One evening when I was about ten, we rushed to one of his basement job sites in the middle of a massive rainstorm — the kind that comes up sideways and doesn't apologize. I stood there holding a spotlight in the downpour while my father's whole crew scrambled around me. The storm was washing out the ground beneath the home's supports. My father didn’t hesitate.

Timmy got on his machine and started digging to reroute the water away from the house. He called a local masonry crew out in the middle of the night to build additional support. Everyone was there, all hands on deck, working through the storm to save a stranger's home.

That project eventually led to my father closing his business. The homeowner refused to pay the emergency rates that had been clearly outlined in the contract. My father had a choice — fight for himself, or make sure his crew and the masonry team who showed up for him in the dark got paid first. He chose them. He always does.

That is my father.

He's home now, relearning how to walk. His brain is healing, and healing takes time — more time than bills allow. He tires easily now, not from lack of will, but because his body is doing the invisible, exhausting work of recovery. And while he rests, the medical bills are arriving alongside car payments, a mortgage, and groceries.

My father has spent his whole life showing up for people in the middle of their storms. We're asking you to show up for him in his.

Any amount helps. Every share matters.