Student in Wheelchair Stuns Class, Walks (635 hits)
Caleb Roach, 6, was injured in a car crash nine months ago An elementary school student who began the school year in a wheelchair shocked his classmates by ending it on his feet.
Caleb Roach, 6, was injured in a crash nine months ago. According to reports at the time, he was traveling with his father when the vehicle veered off the road, hit an embankment and became airborne.
His father, Ricky Roach, suffered only minor injuries, but Caleb was left without the ability to walk, KQTV reported.
“He insinctively knew that his legs didn’t work anymore,” his mother, Crystal Neill, told the TV station.
Caleb spent six weeks at the hospital adjusting to life in a wheelchair.
Then in December, he traveled to Chicago, where he received leg braces and advanced therapy, returning to in between treatments to attend kindergarten.
This week at the school’s talent show he demonstrated to his amazed classmates what he had been working on outside the classroom.
The brave boy suited up in his leg braces and with the help of a walker.
"He decided, 'I want to walk.' I thought it would be awesome because he went to school all year with his friends and they haven't seen him do this," Neill told the TV station.
Neill said his classmates’ reaction surprised her son, who she said is too young to understand the enormity of what he accomplished.
“He was that child in a hospital bed,” she told the TV station. “It’s truly a miracle.”
