GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga.,None — A Gwinnett County good Samaritan is walking again, less than six months after a hit-and-run driver severed his leg in a crash.
But getting to this point was nearly a six-month process.
"Every single day feels like a month, every single day," Caleb Graves told Channel 2's Kerry Kavanaugh.
The long and painful days started Aug. 28, when Graves and his fiancée noticed a stranded driver who had run out of gas along Brook Hollow Parkway.
"I felt this thing inside of me, I knew the Lord was just saying 'Caleb get out and help him'," Graves said.
So he got out to help push the car. That's when police say another driver crashed into Graves, pinning him between both cars. Then the driver took off.
Graves lost his left leg below the knee and from there, his journey as an amputee began.
"The pain is always there. Even as I am talking to you right now my pain is always at a two," Graves said.
But, he says his faith is stronger than any pain.
We were with him last fall as he battled through physical therapy. Now it's time for the payoff. Last week doctors fitted him with his new prosthetic.
Doctors thought it would be a year before he'd walk again. Graves was motivated by something even more important than his music.
"I am going be walking on my wedding day," said Graves.
"We're getting married and he's walking on (Feb. 12) our wedding day ... we made it to our goal," said his fiancée, Victoria Delgado.
On Sunday, the couple will say "I do," standing side by side.
PREVIOUS STORY:
"We're eye level now. I'm not looking down on him in a wheelchair, or I'm not seeing him hunched over on the crutches. He's just walking with two legs," Delgado said.
"It's just so beautiful that I'm going to be able to walk down the aisle for the woman who stood with me since day one," said Graves.
They stuck together through the pain, the challenges, never once considering postponing the wedding.
Come Sunday, they will celebrate.
"He's going to work everything out, no matter what," Graves said.
As for the investigation into the hit and run, Gwinnett County Police told Kavanaugh they're trying to track down a person of interest.
http://bcove.me/ss4xz75u
WSBTV
