 People come up to me all the time and say thank you for your service and and I appreciate that. I appreciate the thanks but nobody ever comes up to Yvonne and thanks her for the service that she's given to this country in taking care of me. I was just grateful that he made it. I didn't think past him making it every day. She allows me to get up get dressed get on my prosthetics on and walk among the people as an equal and that really helps a lot. Usually I have to to wake him up because you sound asleep and we put his shirt on and his arms on and brush his teeth and shave him and comb his hair and get him something to eat and get his legs on and he's all set for the day. The Coast Guard doctor told me he was gonna make it because he was in such a good shape but the other the civilian doctors didn't think he was gonna make it at all and they said even though he's doing well today there's always gonna be something tomorrow. I just hung on to that he was gonna make it. I think that if I wasn't here and Dave wasn't able to stay home with me taking care of him it would be really expensive he would have to have home health. It probably will get a lot harder you know when he gets older we'll just have to deal with that one day at a time when we get there. She's probably aged a lot more than me because of so much she has to do and so much she has to worry about you know she takes a lot of that load for me but as we get older I can see it getting nothing but harder. We call on Congress to correct this inequity by extending assistance to all seriously disabled veterans of all ears. Pass this caregiver bill. Write your congressman write your senators get in the commander's action network get involved and push this bill through because it needs to be done. I'm glad that the post 9-11 are getting it they absolutely need it but I do feel that we are entitled to it too. We put in a lot of years. She had a very good paying job and gave it up to take care of me. She has saved the taxpayers so much money and being my caregiver and in my quality of life has been so much better. When I needed her most she was there for me and she has continued to support me through every challenge since. She and all caregivers are truly unsung American heroes.