'I Got You': Father Carries Paralyzed Son Up 3 Flights of Stairs After Train Station Elevator Breaks Down
A young man with a spinal cord injury has praised his parents on TikTok, after a broken train station elevator left him in a tough spot.
Mason Brandstrator was visiting Berlin with his parents recently when he found himself at the bottom of three flights of stairs with no other way out of the station.
Branstrator set his camera to record his parents’ approach to the problem, with the video showing his father saying “I got you” while carrying him on his back, and his mother bringing his wheelchair up the stairs after them.
He uploaded the footage to TikTok with the caption, “When the elevator’s broken but your parents have your back,” and said that his father had never once complained about helping him since his injury three years ago. Credit: Mason Branstrator via Storyful
Video Transcript
MASON BRANDSTRATOR: There we go.
- Yeah, and then [INAUDIBLE].
- [INAUDIBLE]
- [INAUDIBLE]
- Just grab onto the [INAUDIBLE].
[TRAIN RUMBLING]
MASON BRANDSTRATOR: You got it?
- Yeah, I got you. [INAUDIBLE]. Hold on.
MASON BRANDSTRATOR: [INAUDIBLE]
- OK. You need to hold onto there.
MASON BRANDSTRATOR: OK. [INAUDIBLE].
- Can I help you guys?
MASON BRANDSTRATOR: Dad's got it.
- OK.
- [INAUDIBLE]
- Yeah, yeah.
- [INAUDIBLE]
- [INAUDIBLE]
Coming with the chair.
- OK. [INAUDIBLE].
- Chair is here.
- Woo.
- [INAUDIBLE]
- [INAUDIBLE]
- [INAUDIBLE]
- Ooh.
- That was [INAUDIBLE].
- [INAUDIBLE]
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- [INAUDIBLE]
- Yeah.
- [INAUDIBLE]
MASON BRANDSTRATOR: Good job, guys.
- We could have done that. Wish we had known.
MASON BRANDSTRATOR: If we had nobody?
- If we had known.
MASON BRANDSTRATOR: Know.
- We could have done that going down. But coming up, I'll just say, is easier than going down because of the angle.
