A Cerebral Palsy Sufferer Walking For The First Time Due To New Technology Is An Amazing Video
YouTube/Caters News – A cerebral palsy sufferer has fulfilled his lifelong dream to walk unassisted for the very first time thanks to a ‘robo-skeleton’.
Dakota Privette, 20, from Rock Hill in South Carolina, USA, has had restricted mobility since birth, after he was born ten weeks early.
Doctors didn’t believe he would survive birth and advised mum Donna Funderburk, 43, that she should let her son peacefully pass away during labour. But determined to give him a chance at life, she refused to let him die and after the birth Dakota survived defying all odds.
I don’t know if it’s possible to watch this video and see this guy’s face as he realizes the device is working and not get absolute goosebumps:
Or that excitement and little “Yay” he gives? Such a beautiful moment. It’s crazy how much we take some basic things for granted (and as a blogger sometimes explicitly avoid) like being able to get up and walk around so to see him so overjoyed to just be moving is a real sobering thing. This poor dude has had a rough go of it from literally the second he came out of the womb, kept fighting along with his family, and now thanks to technology he can feel what it’s like to move around after 20 years. It’s so goddamn amazing to see what both science and human beings can do, especially something like this where you know it’s changing the lives of these people who have persevered for so long. Congrats to Dakota and his family on his new cyborg life, hopefully science has him dunking a basketball by 2026.