When combined with his patient’s grit and determination, a Denver neurosurgeon’s skills in performing a rare surgery may have allowed a man to walk his daughter down the wedding aisle against all the odds.
For Russell McKeehan, that simple dream for so many fathers has been something like the north bearing on a compass in a storm of health issues that started when he himself was a paramedic.
In 1995, his ambulance driver fell asleep at the wheel and rolled the vehicle, significantly damaging McKeehan’s nervous system—though he didn’t know it at the time…