Years old and shes determined to learn to walk again with the help of an exoskeleton but so far only a few paraplegics in germany have made their dream of walking again come true. A new schmidt tender partner look us cop for have become experts on exoskeletons a new look at us are intrigued by these mechanisms that can help some people walk again the couple spends hours doing research online. Even though thats fine you cant tell if youre wearing black. Its like something out of a star wars movie. Thats what he has next to use gracias. Yeah you know look at this. Yeah thats why dont you just nikki wearing that re walk on the direct biopic the xcel together. I know its favorite model is made by we walk tomorrow shell try it out for the first time she has high hopes for what this exoskeleton can do not only for self but also for her relationship with luke us they met two years ago and he was as close as them with us now id love to be able to see him at eye level so im steve weve only known each other sitting and standing. Because you know he has sometimes he lifts me out of my wheelchair. I cant stand on my own and he cant hold me up for very long. I just want to be able to stand up and look at him directly in the eyes. I knew could also like to go shopping on our own without having to rely on others. But how many sex. Youre the cook id say six. Would they do most of their shopping at this organic supermarket in their hometown near frankfurt it might be a bit more expensive but the aisles are especially wide and even then a nuke soon reaches her limits. Thats when you see something thats high up on the shelf i cant reach it. Ive tried i could fall i cant do much shopping on my own. I know copes that are next to a skeleton will make her life easier for example she could deal with people if i level now and she often feels that people treat her like a child simply because shes you know wheelchair. Before she was paralyzed a nuke loved to cook and all she can do is help blue cross. Thats what gets me that hes done that i was tired and we divide the work load it up so i do the slicing and locust does the fun stuff. I know he doesnt think shell get much sleep tonight shes too excited about tomorrows first practice run with the exoskeleton. Because politically here. Ill give him a human who sign as i need be able to meet people at eye level theyre not sitting down but theyre getting roaming option because paul right now people talk over my head even when theyve been down to meet me. Of not even as i mean to me id love to stand at the same height as others and walk on my own i cant even describe how great that would be. If come on this guy for starters. The next morning a new car arrives in her specially equipped car for physical therapy her first test with the exoskeleton is just minutes away. I know it knows that the new mechanism on fully replace her wheelchair. Still she is excited at the prospect of being able to stand on her own two feet again for the first time in three years. And she bought a pair of larger shoes just for todays test because the exoskeleton takes up extra room at the soles of her feet but slipping into the high tech machine is harder than it looks. If i give you hand. Just pull it i wont break called a little. It takes several minutes to fit three walk properly or. The. New guys can hardly wait to see a nuke standing on her own two feet. And the trainer explains how to operate the mechanism just started she has to lean forward. When she leans back it stops. It will be enjoyable to swing forward move the supports forward. Then finally a new takes her first steps. You. Lean forward and back it sounds easy but in practice its pretty difficult and it wears you out thats what they must have got spasms in my right leg and the walking is making it a little worse. I need to take a break. Over the supports back catch yourself. Some water. Please i know because exhausted look us is stunned one meter seventy is taller and you think. Yeah and after a short break the training continues coming up that was better right yeah. Now a new can really enjoy a walking her trainer is impressed that she learned so quickly. She worked with the system and did a good job of reacting to all the data that came in and she was quick to find her center of gravity. That usually takes three or four sessions. Well hes been taught to type and i start im so relieved and happy i cant stop smiling. Its always been about ourselves but im also glad that the session is over im staying on the last few steps really wore me out on the clock is not one of them got really confused with leaning forward and into the turn but im definitely looking forward to next time. The nukes Insurance Company will decide whether there will be a next time the re walk representative tells her that the approval procedure can take time the exoskeleton costs over ninety thousand euros so far only twenty three walks have been authorized in germany and the patients often had to wait several years to get one. Six months later a new andrew connoisseur visiting a trade fair for physical rehab products. A nuke will demonstrate how the re walk mechanism works but the Insurance Company has denied our request for her own exoskeleton. That went up about my eyes and that i expected that but i was still disappointed they said i had a wheelchair to compensate for disability and could do various standing exercises so i couldnt justify the cost of every walk. We walk and. Thats how steep but my doctors and i disagree with that assessment when i had suggested we walk as its experts say walking is the best therapy for wheelchair bound patients especially paraplegics if you arrest you rust. Then id like to see those insurance people sit in a wheelchair for just a week and then they can stand up and sit back down on down id like them to tell me how it feels as if this is the on. A nuke is frustrated but really walks head of marketing john fried has provide some comfort. But i new goals and the goal some insurers now realize that this isnt just a gimmick its every day reality a law thats nearly so i think that eventually by more and more of them will approve coverage. When all he says with all. This during the presentation a nuke sees what life could be like if she stays with the Training Program this man has been paralyzed for years by now even stairs are no longer an obstacle. No qualms to be able to walk like that too has soon as possible. But known in front of a big crowd shes overcome by a case of nerves. Asking me if i dont feel as safe in this mechanism as i did in the original. With my partner its a case of mind over matter. Isnt completed on any of the people here are really good at using it. I mean its like and i wouldnt want to trip or anything i was happy that i could just stand up in front spam and i welcome all. The host asks a new quote she do first if she had her own exoskeleton take a walk with my dog and my boyfriend. This is we sure hope that happens thank you for coming today. Its almost christmas the letters from her Insurance Company and local government officials now fill several binders but they still havent given their approval because you think the district accused them concludes that this device is nonessential. Just. Because of poor blue i think the Insurance Company is just trying to put off making expensive investments for as long as possible. Because after two years and countless requests that have been killed i had patients lose interest in darfur yet. Done to a car or they simply might not need something expensive like that anymore. But a new grief uses to give up shes just filed her third appeal with the Insurance Company but wading through all this red tape has taken its toll on her. Its me. Now live in t. V. I might not appear desperate but inside i have to admit that i am in this was one time that. Lights i. D. C. But at the same time i see that others eventually get a re walk. And that gives me hope now weve been i think im just too optimistic to give up on Something Like this. You just have to keep on hoping. For. After all the nukes dream of walking with her dog and boyfriend is bound to come true sooner or later. They make a commitment they find solutions. They can stronger. Africa the. Stories of those people making a difference shaping their nation. And their continent. W. s new multimedia series for africa. Dot com africa on the move. How to cover more than just one reality. Where i come from we have a transatlantic way of looking at things thats because my father is from germany and my mother is from the United States of america and so i realized fairly early that it makes sense to explain different realities. And now here at the heart of the European Union in brussels we have twenty eight different realities and so i think people are really looking for any journalist they can trust for them to make sense of. Pride in his match up and i work at the w