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"He opens doors for me emotionally and physically," Morgan said of his dog, Nepal.

Morgan was a member of the Air Force's Special Operations unit before he was injured during a counter narcotics mission in Ecuador in 1999. The mission was a success, Morgan said, but he was attacked while driving away.

"We got ambushed from behind," Morgan said. "I was in the back seat, kind of halfway out the vehicle protecting the backside. And our driver went off the side of a cliff, and I flipped out. The car rolled on top of me and kind of smashed me face down in the water."

Miraculously, an American Missionary found Morgan just five minutes later. He saved Morgan's life, but the crash left Morgan paralyzed from the waist down.

"I couldn't stand having to rely on someone else to take care of me," Morgan said. "Being in special ops, they don't teach you very much humility. When you have that mentality, and that's the training that's been brought to you, to really humble yourself to have other people help you is extremely tough," he said. "But I'm telling you, it's so much easier for a dog to do it."

Ten years after the accident, the nonprofit Canine Companions for Independence gave Morgan Nepal, a black labrador retriever.

"He keeps me going; he keeps me out doing things," Morgan said. "Honestly, I look at my wheelchair. I have really severe pains so I don't sleep very well. I just want to take my chair and throw it across the room, and Nepal comes up, does that face, 'Hey, let's go do something,' you know?"

Now man and dog are best friends, and Morgan said he's finally healing inside and out.