NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — They saved the best for last at the Norfolk State University graduation last weekend. When the final graduate, Nada Edwards, walked across the stage, her mother could hardly hold it together. "I remember trying to record it and I couldn't yell, couldn't breathe," said Nada's mom, Alice Edwards. "It's like, Oh, my God, "I can just remember them telling me she wasn't going to do anything. She was going to be a vegetable and was I prepared to be a caregiver." Nada was behind the wheel in October 2017 when she got into a crash in the Deep Creek section of Chesapeake. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and was unconscious for five months. When the then 16-year-old high school cheerleader awoke at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, she had a gameplan. "I want to walk " Nada told WAVY. She left the hospital in May 2018, and then, 10 On Your Side watched Nada first move her arms, then her legs, building the strength to stand for the very first time at her high school graduation in 2019. Previously: ‘God flipped the switch’: Hampton Roads teen walks in graduation ceremony after 5-month coma She vowed right then and there to to cross the stage without a walker when she graduated college, but it didn't happen exactly how she had planned. "Because my balance is off on the left side," she said. Despite continued therapy she's not quite there yet, but her spirit remains unbroken. "I can't be brought down," she said. "I can't get no bad spirit. I just have to keep going." Her new goal is to master walking by the time she gets her masters degree. The honors graduate is going back to class to focus on social work or criminal justice.Whatever she decides, her mom said one thing is clear. "With God, all things are possible," Alice Edwards said, "and she is a modern day living testimony of that."