And he did. November 4th wasn’t a good day for documentary filmmaker John Andrews but yesterday certainly was. A little bit over 4 months after the accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down, Andrews walked out of Madonna Rehabilitation Center.

A bike crash bruised his spinal cord and he found out about his condition while in MRI chamber: “I started insisting that they unstrap me, and then the doctor explained to me I wasn’t strapped. That’s how I found out I was paralyzed,” Andrews said.

He was really worried about his family, and how he was going to care for his nine year old son, but he was determent to get back on his feet.

“I decided after a while, if my body didn’t work, I would have to use my mind,” he said.

Only two days later, the plastic surgeon who was working on Andrews’ face noticed his toes moving.

On January 3rd he took his first steps and made a promise that he’d walk out of the hospital. Remembering the first time he felt his weight supported on his feet Andrews said: “That was the day I began to have hope I would walk again.”

In a TV interview Andrews said that a work on a documentary about his wife’s battle with stage 3 breast cancer helped a lot, and “mentally prepared him to take on this challenge.”

“Even though the odds are against you beating something like that, you can face a challenge and be able to overcome it,” he said.

He made a promise, and he kept it. But as he said, his recovery wasn’t always easy: “There were times I felt frustrated, but I was able to just chip away little by little. Eventually, you see the big picture,” Andrews said. “I think what I lost physically, I was able to gain some things mentally.”

John’s case is the best proof that the power of mind is really an amazing thing. So before you quit to fast think is it really impossible? Maybe there really isn’t anything we can’t do once we set our minds to it.