If you want to see courage and toughness, look at what happens inside the rehab clinics at Craig Hospital.

If you want to see hope, watch those spinal cord and brain injury patients walk or roll out of Craig to get back to their lives.

If you want to see pure frustration, look at how little insurance often does to help them get set back up at home.

That's why this week's Word of Thanks microgiving campaign supports the Craig Hospital Foundation's Patient Assistance Fund.

The Patient Assistance Fund helps Craig patients buy specialized wheelchairs and lifts, helps them make modifications to their homes, covers the cost of transportation to and from appointments. It even chips in for scholarships to help patients go back to school to get a degree and find a new career compatible with their challenges.

It's not about dignity, because you can't take the dignity of someone who has had the courage and stamina to battle back from a brain or spinal cord injury.

But it is about doing right by our neighbors: Helping them get back to life with modifications and assistance that makes life doable again.

Since Kyle started Word of Thanks in 2020, this Next community has raised more than $12.6 million for nonprofits doing great work in our state. Like every week, we ask you to consider even a $5 donation – and Kyle will match the first fifty of those.

As always, thank you.

If you're interested in giving to this week's cause, you can donate here: https://www.coloradogives.org/story/E...