Jennifer Darmon and Mike Belawetz - Paralyzed bride determined to walk down the aisle

Jennifer Darmon rests her hands on her fiance's shoulders, looks into his eyes and takes a step.

The dance is clumsy at first, but it gets better.

With no sensation from her hips down, it's amazing Jennifer is on her feet at all. That she will walk down the aisle April 16 and share a first dance with her bridegroom is miraculous. Jennifer, 28, suffered a catastrophic spinal injury in a 2008 car crash. A vertebra broken and the nerves to her spinal cord shredded, she was told by a surgeon in London, Ont., she would never walk again.

But thanks to a will of steel and leg braces of titanium, she now spends hours on her feet and out of her wheelchair.

Jennifer and fiance Mike Belawetz, 24, practised their wedding dance last week at the Detroit Medical Centre's Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan (RIM). Jennifer has been going to RIM three times a week for two years.

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[abondanzamama]

God Bless Mike and Jennifer. My Hubby Joe, who passed on 4/15 after a lengthy illness, watched this with me just days before his last hospitalization. He reached for, and squeezed, my hand. He and I were blessed with that same true love, and I rejoice in sharing with you that the love never dies. Please check out my fb page to read about my "bumper music" that I posted to go with this story.