Nearly three years ago, Eric Abrahamson woke up one day and couldn’t walk. Doctors found an infection in his spine.

“I was completely paralyzed from my waist down,” Abrahamson said.

“I ended up getting surgery that opened up my back and then they found out my spine had been deteriorating so they had to rebuild it.”

Abrahamson was told he would never walk again and was sent to the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital to help him learn the skills he would need while using his wheelchair.

“I just forced myself to not think that way, that I would be stuck in that chair,” he said. ” I kept thinking that if I just keep working on it someday it would come back and one day it did.

Abrahamson went from using a wheelchair to standing.

“Even standing was hard,” he said.

He then took a few steps,

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