WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — Marine Corps veteran Ricardo Vasquez will wake up Tuesday to a new restroom and lease on life after a local Michigan company gifted him a new, accessible shower for Veteran’s Day.

“I’m going to sleep in the shower,” Vasquez laughed as he admired the work that BathWorks of Michigan employees completed inside his Wyoming home. “I hope it brings that joy back, when I used to like to take a shower.”

Vasquez lost his legs to diabetes last winter and his wife to the disease this fall. He admittedly has had a hard year.

“I don’t even want to get up sometimes,” he said.

But his son’s commitment to the family and a lucky application brought this six-year serviceman a new restroom through a national program known as Baths for the Brave.

“We’re very proud that we spearheaded this program,” said Senja Spelman, marketing director of BathWorks. “We will be installing 19 different bathrooms for deserving veterans throughout our country today.”

Vasquez served as a machine gunner during the end of the Vietnam War. While he never deployed, he said his experience getting out of the military was similar to others back in the late 1970s and early 80s.

“Now I know that somebody cares,” he said. “You spend all that time in the Marine Corps, and nobody says, ‘Hey we’re going to help you out.’ Nothing like that.”