Quadriplegic man shares emotional first dance with wife six years after horror

He rammed his auto into a telephone pole, ejecting him from his seat out nearly half a football field. A 15-year-old girl died in the collision.

Joel has been confined to a wheelchair after he suffered horrific injuries in a vehicle crash in 2009. After 87 days in hospital – many of them spent in a coma – he was sent home, with friends and family told not to expect much from his recovery.

“People don’t live through C1 injuries [the vertebrae cloest to the head]”, Bob McIver, manager of the rehabilitation centre told NBC. “Kids sometimes do. At his age, it’s fatal in matter of seconds”.

Joel and Lauren Jackson were married three years ago, after he was left seriously disabled in a auto smash.

Joel and Lauren Jackson shared the handsome moment in hospital, gazing into each other’s eyes while dancing to “I’ll be” by Edwin McCain.

Writing on her blog, Lauren recalled: “It was love at first sight, if ever a thing existed”. They got married in September 2013 with the same song playing at their reception.

As Lauren was going through a divorce she began exchanging text messages with Mr Jackson. SpeakNowMinistry via YouTube The staff and other patients looked on in awe as the couple shared the dance with the help of a ZeroG body-weight support device.

This video shows the couple doing the classic first dance shuffle to “I’ll be” by Edwin McCain played over the rehab gym’s stereo.

Finally able to enjoy her wedding dance, Lauren said: “I don’t know if you’re like me, but I have photographed (and now videoed) tons of brides and grooms during their first dance”.

“I couldn’t stop saying ‘Goodness you are sooooo tall!'” she wrote.

“We were preparing for a typical day of therapy. However, God had something else in mind”, she wrote. I always wondered what they giggled and smiled about, what the conversation was about. It is the little triumphs that [are] giant steps for us.