When you sustain a spinal cord injury you don't have time to wait for a check. Suddenly you need money for everything. Loved ones need money for fuel and hotels so they can be at your side. They likely have to miss work as well. Then there are the bills back home that won't stop coming in even when you stop working....

Spinal cord injury is expensive. Complete quadriplegia costs more than a million dollars the first year, and for C1-4 injuries, lifetime costs can exceed 6 million.