DANBURY — It was February when a frightened Jennifer French watched her barely 13-year-old son motionless and hooked up to tubes and pumps in the intensive care unit.

“It was terrifying not knowing if he was going to ever recover from that,” she recalled. “We are grateful he did.”

After months in a rehabilitation hospital, Luciano “Lu” Uribe is finally back home in Danbury and learning to walk again following a cancer diagnosis and being in a coma for a week.

“When I am asked how I’ve been able to stay strong though all of this, being strong wasn’t really my choice,” Luciano said. “I had to be strong because I had no other choice. I’m getting better.”

Source: Danbury 13-year-old learning to walk again after battling cancer, coma: ‘I had to be strong’