Local soldier and his family continue to survive

A Fort Carson soldier, given a 20-percent survival rate from an attack in Iraq last spring, was air lifted to a hospital in Aurora on Sunday. After suffering a brain seizure, he is conscious and in stable condition. But there's much more to his story.

Specialist Ron Hinkle and his convoy were hit by an improvised explosive device while serving in Iraq last spring. Three weeks after the attack, Hinkle developed infections and blood clots around his lungs and heart. After spending 49 days in the hospital, Hinkle has bounced back faster than expected.

His wife Reece is also fighting her own battle with diabetes and dialysis twice a week as she waits for a kidney and a pancreas transplant. Also Ron and Reece's daughter Rebecka has been fighting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and so far she's winning. She's been in remission for three months now.

Like many military families, the Hinkle's are having a tough time keeping it together financially and emotionally. But through it all, they say they have no regrets and never ask the question, "Why us?"

From KOAA 5