what happened to kevin everett

"This is bad." Maurice James Christopher Cole, better known as Kenny Everett, was a British comedian and radio disc jockey. He never looked scared to me. I mean, my mom, my sisters and my fiancée," Everett said.

For Moore, a special day came in the form of a proposal Sept. 29, just weeks after the injury. "I was so proud of him. "The ambulance started to just vibrate because of all this energy pouring from the stands," said paramedic supervisor Christopher Zemrac, of Rural/Metro Medical Services. Woodruff asked.

However, Cappuccino gave the player a "statistically very small" chance of walking again. And the girls love him back. Gibbons said that right now, the only thing they were concerned about was getting Kevin to walk again. Less than two weeks after his injury, Everett was flown to a rehab facility called

"We were pushing him.

Sept. 12, 2007 -- Hospitalized Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett has moved his arms and legs, raising hopes that he may one day walk again. His recovery, a true medical mystery, has captured national attention and caused a stir in the medical community. "He couldn't move his arms or legs at all, and I'd look at the weight that he is picking up now — it is a huge difference," said Laredo. "He's a tiger, you know, he's strong. 85. Working in his favor are his age, the incomplete nature of the spinal cord injury, his constitution, and exceptional physical condition at the time of injury, as well as the rapid treatment he received. And while he will not play football again, coaching is not out of the question. "It was probably God telling me, you know, trying to tell me something," Everett said. Expectations were high for the man who wore No. "When he arrived in our facility he was actually moving his legs, barely moving his arms, couldn't even take care of himself," said Dr. Teodoro Castillo, the co-director of the spinal cord program at TIRR. Still, Cappuccino was cautious when asked in a news conference later that day whether Everett would ever walk again. "It wasn't a strong hug, but it was good enough for me." "You knew it was something serious, just the motion of his body and the way he fell, almost lifeless, to the ground," said paramedic supervisor Scott Karaszewski, watching from the sidelines. "He looked worried. "It was done like clock work," said Cappuccino.

I don't settle for less," Everett said. On the phone with Everett's mother, Cappuccino described the injury as "catastrophic." "I didn't know what to think, what to believe, what's going on. "After the surgery we feel somewhat better," said Gibbons. "The first couple of weeks he would sit in darkness in his hospital bedroom," Rafferty Laredo, the manager of occupational therapy at TIRR, recalled. "He promised me that he would do anything and everything that he could possible, to make sure that everything worked out," Everett said. Everett said his first thoughts were of his loved ones. "That's not me, I don't give up. Cappuccino reported that, immediately after the injury, Everett could not feel anything below his shoulders, but the morning after surgery, he had some voluntary movement in his legs, and could feel pressure "down to his feet."

Kevin is very, 'One day, baby, everybody is going to know who I am.

"I made the decision in the ambulance to throw the kitchen sink at him, to use some not completely tested [therapies], some therapies that have scientific data but are controversial," he said. "Nobody thought I would be recovering like this." "I was thinking the whole time I was going to get better, just like any other injury that I had." "Well, certainly, I was incredibly excited."

"On December 7, Everett was able to walk on his own power, but he did not have full movement.In an article on buffalobills.com from 2012, Everett was interviewed in a story titled Kevin Everrett walks onto the field to receive the George Halas award during halftime of the Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills game on September 7, 2008

"It was the year," said Dick Jauron, the Bills' head coach. "Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? This week, the story of Everett's life and recovery will be published in a book called "Standing Tall: The Kevin Everett Story," written by Sam Carchidi. What happened next would make anyone wish it had never come down. He joined commercial radio when "I tried to give my teammates a thumbs up when they put me on the stretcher," Everett said.

To be clear: Kevin Everett loves being a dad to five-year-old Famatta, four-year-old Faith and 18-month-old Kelani. I want them to talk to Kevin Everett, and if Kevin Everett is unhappy with the job I've done for him, then I'll feel bad." On a recent visit to Everett's home in Humble, Texas, ABC's Bob Woodruff asked whether he ever considered giving up.

But now, less than five months later, Everett is walking on his own, shocking even his physicians with his quick recovery. "Did you know you were paralyzed?"

He hasn't gotten up.'

Facedown on the field, Everett was desperately trying to lift himself off the turf. He savors the nurturing and the playing. Cappuccino injected steroids and ran a cold saline solution through Everett's bloodstream, trying to lower his body temperature to protect his spinal cord from further damage. "If you ask me 'will he walk again,' I would say, 'I wouldn't bet against it,'" Gibbons said at a Sept. 12 news conference.

Cappuccino originally stated that he believed Everett would sustain "permanent" neurological damage, and used terms such as "bleak" and "dismal" to describe the outlook for a case he frankly described as "life-threatening", giving Everett less than a 5-10% chance of regaining full utilization of his physical capabilities.