Young Hockey Player Returns To The Rink Nine Months After A Devastating Injury

Young Hockey Player Returns To The Rink Nine Months After A Devastating Injury

From the ice hockey rinks of Minnesota comes the story of a young man determined not to let an injury change his life the way his doctors assured him it would.

Whether the desire to get back on the ice or faith in his creator, Jackson Drum defied the odds of a C1-2 spinal cord injury suffered whilst playing, and is regaining capacities typically lost forever under these circumstances.

“He wasn’t supposed to have any movement or be able to breathe or drink or anything,” said his mother, Erica, who added that the chances of him doing what he went on to do were “one-in-a-trillion.”

“When we told him he was paralyzed in Canada, he was like, ‘I am not going to be paralyzed,'” Erica told CBS News.

GNN isn’t saying that all miraculous recoveries are possible through that statement of belief, but all miraculous recoveries tend to start with a statement of belief of some kind.

So it was after Drum got injured during a prep school hockey game north of the border. The Minnesota Wild fan then embarked on a 9-month rehabilitation program that saw him ditch the ventilator he was on.

“He wasn’t supposed to get off the ventilator, then he got off the ventilator. Then he wasn’t supposed to be off a feeding tube and then he got off a feeding tube,” Erica said. “It’s so unexpected that it’s just like a miracle.”

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He got some movement back into his legs, and his rehab has even included striking hockey pucks.

After 9 months he returned to watch his team play, met up with his coach, and shared the locker room with his teammates, all of whom had by then heard what had happened and were delighted to see him.

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On Sunday, the Minnesota Wild gave Jackson a great experience, inviting him to the game and giving him a suite to share with friends and family. During the break between the 1st and 2nd periods, they announced his return home on the Jumbotron.

Jackson hopes to one day play hockey again, but at the moment his goals also include showing people that spinal cord injuries are not the end of the period.

WATCH Jackson conquer his rehab in a report from CBS below…