In early December of 2022, Jonathan Bottoms suffered a horrific accidental fall while in Denver training for his new dream job in aviation with a terrific company. He sustained a broken neck and a life-changing spinal cord injury.

Jonathan spent three months as an inpatient at The Shepherd Center in Atlanta and since and is  continuing with outpatient physical therapy three days each week. He continues to work hard to regain movement throughout his body with outpatient services provided by a host doctors, therapists, and support personnel.  While Jonthan has experienced some improvement, he is far from where he hoped and prayed he would be at this point. He is still completely dependent on others for basic needs.

Jonathan’s wife, Kelly, paused her career in real estate to be his primary caregiver along with paid caregivers. In addition to this reduction of income, their living expenses have dramatically increased. The family is thankful for his medical insurance but so much of what he requires is outside the scope of the insurance coverage. There is the need for caregivers to assist Kelly in the day-to-day managing of his care, adaptive equipment, additional therapies not covered by insurance, co-pays for doctors, prescriptions, and so much more. His expenses are consistently greater than $12,000 per month.