Judy Aguirre remains in a wheelchair following a fall and serious spinal cord injury last year. She's slowly recovering and as our Kat De Maria tells us, now, a new ramp and deck built with the community's support are helping that process along.

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"I was walking in the dark and I thought I was going through a hallway and I walked right down the cellar stairs," she said.

The fall down what the family now jokingly calls the "evil stairs" left Judy with a broken neck, a severe spinal cord injury and paralysis. Through intensive care, surgery and rehabilitation, some of her movement has come back. But now, nine months later, things are far from back to normal.

"It's a really big adjustment, but we've kind of just tried to roll with it," Aguirre said.

Despite some modifications, roll was one thing Judy was having a hard time doing. So her sister reached out to McClurg Remodeling and Construction Services.

"I just decided to call and explain that Judy fell in the middle of their home improvements and they had put a slider off of the kitchen door, but they hadn't put anything outside the kitchen, so basically there was a sliding glass door to nowhere," said Judy's sister, Jennifer Harte.

President Scott McClurg and Vice President Brian Ciota agreed to meet the Aguirres and discuss building them a ramp and deck.

"As soon as we met Judy and saw what a positive attitude she had about dealing with the tragedy that she has been through, we said we have to do this," Ciota said.

The work took the McClurg crew a little more than a month to complete and Wednesday, they and the Aguirres got together to enjoy the results.

"The ability for Judy to have independence and the ability for Judy to get out in the yard is huge," McClurg said.

"I can come in and out as I want. It's a place to be with my family," Aguirre said.

It's also a place for Judy to watch sons Nicholas and Diego play in the yard, while she continues to heal.

"Nobody tells you. But I think I'll walk," Aguirre said.

McClurg and Ciota say all of their employees, suppliers and subcontractors donated time and materials to the Aguirres' project.