Some Background

This is my boyfriend, Jason Yasuda.

Until recently, Jason was a full-time skydiving instructor at Skydive Wayne County -- with professional ratings to teach static line, tandem and accellerated freefall students. He is a very experienced skydiver with about 1,700 jumps.

On July 2, he was involved in a skydiving accident, a mid-air collision.

In that split second, Jason lost his mobility, his career and a friend, Sean, who died during the incident.

Jason has been in the hospital since the accident and does not have the necessary health insurance to pay the enormous medical bills.

He is now facing the long road of rehabilitation. He'll be living in a physical therapy center at the hospital for the next couple weeks. He will then be limited to a wheelchair for a very long time and will eventually have to relearn to walk.

Jason also won't be able to come home again. We have to move away from our apartment, because it is on the second floor of a building with no elevator.

And that's just some of the practical, physical stuff my boyfriend is facing now. His head and his heart will take far longer to heal.

Please think of him often and keep him in your prayers.