Steps to Recovery

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Steps to Recovery
Posted: Oct 25, 2012 4:02 PM PDT Updated: Oct 25, 2012 4:02 PM PDT


NATCHITOCHES, La. - A young man is defying the odds--and gravity--as he recovers from a spinal cord injury.

News Channel 5's Kathleen Witte visited him in the rehab center today to see how a device from NASA is helping him walk again.

Last December, Leterrione Eady was the victim of an accidental shooting. The gunshot injured his spinal cord so badly, doctors told him he would never walk again.

"I didn't think it would ever happen to me because I never did anything to anybody," says Eady. "At first I thought about giving up, when it first happened. I was blaming everybody else."

But less than a year later, Eady is walking, with the help of this anti-gravity treadmill designed by NASA...and with the help of his own determination.

"My feeling is coming back," Eady says. "And I'm moving my legs more. I always knew I was going to walk.

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