After a football accident in 2010 left him paralyzed from the neck down, Chris Norton was told there was only a 3 percent chance he would ever walk again – but last weekend, he walked his beautiful bride down the aisle.
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Norton, 26, has been confined to a wheelchair for the past 7 years. He played football for Luther College Norse but his career ended in 2010 when he suffered a spinal chord injury while making a tackle during a game against Central College.
He was told that he had fractured his C3-C4 vertebrae and had a three percent chance of ever moving anything below his neck ever again.
“I wasn’t going to accept that,” he told PEOPLE. “I was going to be part of that three percent.”
When Norton got back to school, he wondered if he’d ever find a woman who would…
