In the quiet moments between hope and heartbreak, Travis McNeely finds himself navigating a reality no parent ever imagines. His 19-year-old daughter, Justice Parks, lies in a rehabilitation center in Lincoln, Nebraska, learning to live as a quadriplegic after a car accident that changed everything in an instant.
On July 28, what started as an ordinary day for the Montrose family became their worst nightmare. Justice was driving with her two-year-old daughter when her vehicle left the roadway, rolled one and a half times, and threw her from the car. The toddler, properly secured in her car seat, emerged without a scratch. Justice wasn’t as fortunate, suffering a broken neck and severe trauma that left her paralyzed from the shoulders down.
“She can move her arms up and down and in and out, but that’s all she can do. She has no finger movement” McNeely explains, his voice heavy with the weight of their new reality. “She can’t grab anything or nothing like that.”…