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Teen walks graduation stage 1 year after suffering severe spinal cord injury
Southern Minnesota coverage of graduation night in Alexandria.
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Minnesota teen walks graduation stage 1 year after suffering severe spinal cord injury
Nick Lunemann on the walk across the stage, one year after doctors said it would not happen.
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Standing ovation
Lisa Johnson's hometown story, with Jackson in his own words on faith, determination and what comes next.
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Minnesota teen walks at graduation after spinal cord injury
From the care team at Courage Kenny, where Jackson did his rehab after coming home.
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Former hockey player to walk at graduation after breaking neck
Daniel Pursell, from the Idaho station that covered him all through his recovery.
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Hockey player paralyzed in Burnaby last year will walk across the stage for his graduation
Picked up in British Columbia, where the injury happened.
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Minnesota teen paralyzed in hockey incident plans to walk at graduation
Nine days out from graduation, the goal he had been training for all year.
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Ep. 170 - Unbreakable Mindset: Jackson Drum's Story of Resilience, Faith, and Relentless Work
The long-form interview. Jackson walks through the accident, the ventilator, and the mindset that got him through it.
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Ep. 8 - The Jackson Drum Testimony
Jackson with Fellowship of Christian Athletes Hockey, the organization he volunteered with before the injury.
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Teen hockey player paralyzed during game is slowly recovering after suffering the same injury as Christopher Reeve
Jackson's story told to a national audience.
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In Good Hands: Meet Jackson Drum and His Care Team
The Atlanta hospital where he spent eight months, told from the side of the people who treated him.
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Astonishing recovery of boy, 18, whose hockey accident inflicted the same kind of injury that paralyzed Christopher Reeve
Jackson's recovery picked up by one of the largest news sites in the world.
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Tolkkinen: Badly injured in a hockey accident, rural teen shows that sometimes, hope pays off
Karen Tolkkinen's third column on Jackson, nine months after the first.
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A fan got a special welcome back to the state of hockey
Jackson's first weekend home, at the rink in Blaine to watch his team.
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Young hockey player returns to the rink nine months after a devastating injury
Back at the National Sports Center the day after flying home from Atlanta.
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MN hockey player who broke his neck returned to the rink to watch his team
Jessica Hart, with Jackson and his mom Erica on the ventilator wean and what he is aiming at next.
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Minnesota teen defies odds, reunites with hockey team after paralysis
The reunion with the Cardinals, eight months after the injury.
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"Got to stay positive": CDA teen hockey player defies all odds on the road to recovery
Jackson's first interview after the injury.
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Tolkkinen: Rural Minnesota teen paralyzed in hockey game finds reason for hope
A follow-up from Atlanta, as the first movement started coming back.
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Benefit for Jackson Drum April 12
The Minnesota hockey community's call to turn out for the benefit in Alexandria.
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Alexandria teen recovers after spinal cord injury during hockey game
Early coverage from Shepherd Center in Atlanta.
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Alexandria teen recovers after spinal cord injury during hockey game
The written version of the KSTP report.
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97's Journey: Local hockey teen fighting to walk again after life-altering injury
From Coeur d'Alene, where Jackson was playing his junior year.
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"Miracle boy" hockey player in MN hoping to overcome quadriplegic injury
Three weeks in, when he first started telling doctors he could feel his legs.
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Minnesota hockey player paralyzed during game seeing “small miracles”
The first signs of movement coming back, three weeks after the injury.
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Minnesota teen seriously hurt in hockey accident back in the US for recovery
The air ambulance home from Vancouver to Shepherd Center in Atlanta.
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Minnesota teen undergoes surgery after breaking neck during hockey game
The surgery that fused his C1 and C2 vertebrae.
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Tolkkinen: Rural Minnesota teen may never walk again after hockey accident
Columnist Karen Tolkkinen on the community rallying around the family.
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Local hockey community steps up after Minnesota teen breaks his neck at tournament in Burnaby, B.C.
How families in British Columbia rallied around the Drums while they were stranded there.
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Alexandria teenager recovering in Vancouver hospital, after breaking his neck during a hockey game
The first report from Minnesota, five days after the injury.
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Devastating injury for MN hockey player hurt during game in Vancouver
What was known in the first week after the hit.
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Teen hockey player suffers serious injury on the ice
The broadcast version, from the week of the accident.
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Community Spotlight: Jackson Drum
Jackson's injury was nearly identical to Christopher Reeve's. The foundation told his story to its community.
Nothing of that kind yet.