A year ago Friday, Dallas police lieutenant Carlton Marshall was shot in the neck during a drug raid.

Some medical experts said he would never walk again and that he might never again be able to talk.

But he's proven them all wrong.

It has been a long and painful year for Lt. Marshall.

"I would not wish this on my worst enemy, you know," he said.

"It's torture."

A year ago today, he was shot in the neck while serving a warrant with the Dallas SWAT team.

"You think it will never happen to you."

The event changed his life forever, yet he can't remember it.

"I guess somewhere my memory has just erased that. For better or worse it's gone. The last thing I remember was taking my wife and kids to the State Fair."

His wife Susan remembers the details. She was getting their children ready for daycare when she got the call he'd been shot.

"I was thinking I was going to be burying my husband."

He would have died, except doctors who train with the SWAT team, were on the raid and saved his life by performing emergency surgery on spot.

"Watching what he's had to go through over the last year has been inspiring for all of us," said Dr Alex Eastman.

He and Susan watch proudly as they see him walk with a cane for the first time.

"He amazes me. Every time I come here," said Eastman.

Amazing because medical experts said he would probably be bedridden forever.

After the shooting, he had meningitis and a stroke.

Yet, he is determined. His goal to walk without a cane some day.

"And be able to dance with my wife again. We used to dance all the time. I really would like to go back on the dance floor with her," Marshall said.

Marshall says he won't stop at dancing. He plans to go back to work and finish his career at DPD.

"I'm alive for a reason... we'll find out what it is," he added.

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