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Imagine yourself as the man of the house, married and raising 2 children.
Imagine yourself when you are told you will be battling blindness for the rest of your life.
Imagine yourself going through 3 major eye surgeries in a 13 month period.
Imagine yourself having over a dozen other forms of treatment including laser, needle injections in the eye and other experimental procedures just to attempt to save your site.
Imagine yourself losing all the vision in one eye, no side vision in the other, and see blood 100% of the time through your only line of site.
Imagine yourself still working through all this to help provide for your family.
Imagine your 2 children to be disabled, one with a physical disability and the other one has severe mental and physical disabilities.
Imagine both children confined in wheelchairs.
Imagine the stress on the wife, who also holds down a full time job, provides the insurance and comes home to help care for the children and ailing husband.

I can't only imagine it, that is my life story above. I always took care of myself. Never drank, don't smoke, and never tries drugs.
For the last 5 years of my 44 years on earth, diabetes has been kicking my butt and I am constantly fighting back to win the war. After being severely burned on one foot from a ATV accident, I was facing amputation of one foot, when after routine blood work, was given the news that like so many others in my family, I was diabetic. Doctors later saved my foot, but have a lifetime of permanent nerve damage. Shortly after that, I began to suffer severe bleeding in both of my eyes. Doctors have performed all types of treatments but none have been a permanent fix. It has robbed me of my site in one eye and only partial site in the other.Surgeries are very expensive. We don't qualify for any type of help and we always have to come up with at least 20%. My most recent surgery, last week, cost me out of pocket, almost $2000.

I will start with my wife's oldest daughter, now 24. At birth, she was a happy, perfectly healthy baby. At less than 3 weeks old, her birth father, for a lack of better words, attempted to kill her. I did not know my wife yet, but according to newspaper clippings, he attempted to drown her in dish water, threw her against a wall, and other horrible acts of abuse. He served a meager 15 years in prison, while she is serving a lifetime of the effects. She has severe brain damage, cerebral palsy, can't walk, can't talk, and is permanently confined to a wheelchair.

My wife and I's youngest is almost 13. She is a bright, happy and well spoken girl. She was born with Spina Bifida. Like her sister, she is permanently confined to a wheelchair. She has