He Hallmark Channel’s Mamie Laverock celebrated a milestone in his recovery after surviving a five-story fall from a hospital balcony in May.
The 20-year-old “When Calls the Heart” actress stood up and took her first steps in a since-deleted video shared on her official Facebook page on Friday.
“Thank you surgeons, thank you prayers, thank you Lord. Mamie has just taken her first steps,” read the text accompanying the clip, which has since been deleted.
As the video began, Laverock was sitting in a hospital bed with an eye patch over her left eye and both feet covered in cast boots as two family members stood behind her before joining others behind the camera.
A medical staff member stood next to Laverock on her left side while another brought a walker over and placed it in front of her.
Laverock said: “I don’t know if I can still…”
“I’m here to help,” an employee to his right told him.
The actress then placed her hands on the walker.
“What you can do is even push yourself up out of bed,” the same doctor advised Laverock.
Laverock grabbed one of the walker’s arms and carefully lifted himself up onto the bed with his other hand as the group gathered behind the camera applauded and cheered.
The TV star smiled.
“Let’s toast to standing,” he said.
“It’s a very strange feeling,” Lavarock added. “It’s a very strange feeling.”
“What does it feel like on your feet?” one of the medical workers asked Laverock.
“I feel very unstable,” she replied.
“It’s like wearing ski boots,” said one of Laverock’s relatives.
“Yes, it is,” she nodded.
“Could you spread your feet a little?” asked the doctor on his right.
“My goodness, ski boots are so hard,” Laverock said with a nervous laugh. Then he shuffled his knees and looked up with a smile.
“So, could you put all your weight on the right side and a little bit on the left?” the medical worker said.
Laverock turned to the doctor on his left and said, “I’ll hold your hand just in case.”
One of Laverock’s family members told Laverock that they were now FaceTiming with his father, John.
“So, we’re just going to start and get used to being upright because we haven’t been upright for a while,” the staff member told him.
“Yeah, I feel like I’m going to fall backwards,” Laverock said.
“You can lean on the walker, that’s what it’s for,” the doctor explained.
“The Killing Game” actress Then he looked at the camera and asked, “Is Daddy on FaceTime?”
“Hi, Dad,” she said, smiling, as her father replied, “Hi, honey.”
“Look, I’m standing with the walker,” she said. “Alone.”
Laverock stepped forward with his left foot and took a few more steps.
“Oh my God! Moving feet! Moving feet!” exclaimed one family member at the end of the video.
Laverock was put on a ventilator after falling from a balcony weeks after an undisclosed “medical emergency,” according to a GoFundMe page set up by her family in May. The page is no longer accepting contributions.
At the time, her family wrote on the page: “Her body has been devastated. She has undergone two 11-hour surgeries with two doctors working on her, one three-hour surgery and another surgery today. We have nothing but gratitude for the doctors and nurses who have been exemplary in her care since May 26.”
They added that Mamie is “enduring tremendous pain” but also “still not giving up.”
“We can only hold on to the miracles of each day and continue to thank everyone for their prayers and marvel at the miracles of her story,” they shared online. “Our daughter loves her life and loves her family and fights hard every day.”
Laverock had been in intensive care for two weeks before the fall and was “escorted out of a secure unit of the hospital and taken to a balcony walkway from where she fell five stories.”
“He suffered life-threatening injuries, underwent multiple extensive surgeries and is currently on life support,” his mother, Nicole Rockmann, and stepfather, Rob Compton, previously shared.
Mamie was originally admitted to a hospital in Winnipeg, Canada, for a “medical emergency” on May 11, according to GoFundMe. “Nicole was able to get there in time to save her life.
“Mamie was taken to hospital in Vancouver. It is not known for certain if she will recover, but she is alive and showing signs of improvement.”
Two weeks later, her family wrote that they were “devastated, in shock, at this intensely difficult time” and wrote that Mamie was now on “life support.”
In June, Rockmann told the Los Angeles Times that Laverock “opened his eyes” and is “doing well.”
“Hopefully this is the change and she can move on from this now. I couldn’t be happier that people have reached out and cared. The story will be told,” Rockmann said.
On July 9, Laverock celebrated her 20th birthday at the hospital. She posted a photo of a balloon rainbow created by artist Evelyn Milanes and wrote, “Thank you Evelyn. Your hard work and love created such beautiful balloon art.”
“My miracle birthday…somewhere over the rainbow,” she added.
The next day, Rockmann shared a photo of himself hugging Laverock on his birthday.
“Mamie rolled onto her stomach, sat up and hugged me… that’s when we knew we could have our first hug,” she wrote in the caption. “Thank you Rob for capturing this moment.”
Fox News Digital’s Tracy Wright contributed to this report.
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