John suffered a serious fall on the morning of August 19, 2007. He received a C4-C5 spinal cord injury which left him paralyzed from the chest down. He was in the Neuro Critical Care unit at Methodist Hospital until September 4th when he was moved to Select Specialty Hospital. This is where John worked on weaning off the ventilator. He was finally successful and was transferred to Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana on October 30th. John was here for many weeks working on physical, occupational, and recreational therapy. After this long, emotional journey, John was released from RHI and went home on December 20th, 2007.

John continued with out patient therapy for the next seven months. He now works daily on therapy at home with hopes of regaining some use of his arms. He lives with his wife, Tamie, and two daughters, Alex and Sami in Brownsburg, Indiana.