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The Kentucky family who won a new home from ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition about 3 years ago is now putting their house on the market.

Hundreds of volunteers, John Henry Homes and a local KY builder help build Brian and Michelle Hassall a new home for their family in Sunrise, Ky.

Rumor is the family says medical bills are forcing them to downsize. Apparently Michelle Hassall has cancer and will have surgery sometime over the summer. The Hassalls are hoping to move closer to her doctors in Lexington to avoid the timely and costly travel expenses.

The home just went on the market this week for $350,000.

Brian Hassall, at the time was a Cynthiana police officer, was shot in the line of duty while he was a police officer with Transylvania University in Lexington in 1996. Due to his injuries, he suffers from severe migraines that are triggered by daylight. He has to work night-shift and the only place he could find sleep was in his dark basement.

In January of 2006 Hassall was named Officer of the Year by the Cynthiana Police Department. He joined that department in 1997.

Michelle Hassall, a violinist, teaches choir at Harrison County High School. She has been awarded Teacher of the Year. She has battled a blood disorder and has been diagnosed with lymphoma cancer. Because of her low immune system, she couldn't go into the damp environment of the basement with her husband for any great length of time. Their home was literally keeping them apart.

Her students and faculty rallied around the popular teacher as she fought the disease while raising the two small children with her husband.

Similar stories have appears regarding other Extreme Home Makeovers in New Jersey, Idaho, Georgia and California.