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‘Things started to take off’: Madison dad called a miracle after defying odds to walk again

News Channel 8, WTNH
By Sarah Cody
March 21, 2022

MADISON, Conn. (WTNH) – “I remember the feeling that the car was out of control and that was frightening. I rolled down an embankment and was unconscious,” says Jason Bedford who doesn’t remember all of the details of his 2017 accident. “I had an interesting out-of-body experience.”

This left Bedford convinced that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

This one-car accident left him with multiple fractures and paralyzed in his left leg, changing the course of his life.

“I heard a nurse say, ‘You may have to get used to being in this wheelchair,'” he says, noting that rather than feel defeated, this motivated him to defy expectations and work hard to return to being an active dad to his daughter. “She was afraid for me and I told her I was going to work as hard as I could.”