They're amazing, Kate Kasey.

Welcome back to another episode of Reality Life with Kate Kasey.

Hope that you had a great week and boy do I have an episode for you.

Chris Norton is a former defensive back who played Division 3 football for Luther College

in Iowa.

But his career ended in 2010 when he became paralyzed while making a tackle during a kickoff in a game

against Central College.

He fractured his C3 and C4 vertebrae in the third quarter of play.

The fracture occurred on impact as his head collided with the ball carrier's need during

a kickoff return.

And as the pile cleared, he's laying face down motionless on the ground.

And he was transported off the field via ambulance and taken for emergency care to a medical

center where doctors stabilized him for an airlift to the neighboring Mayo Clinic.

Later that night at Rochester's Mayo Clinic, he underwent surgery in which a piece of

his hip bone was used to fuse together his C3, C4, and C5 vertebrae.

And get this, he was given a 3% chance of ever regaining movement.

The next morning, he awoke with his neck immobilized in a two-placed in his throat to supplement

oxygen flow.

And although he couldn't initially speak, he was able to shrug his left shoulder ever

so slightly, define the doctor's prognosis.

Five weeks in his rehab, he regained some movement in feeling throughout his upper body.

And he eventually returns to Luther College where he lived in a campus housed with other

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