Brentwood Gazette published Rush Green mum's joy as son learns to walk again after coma

AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boy has learnt to walk again after emerging from a coma.

For eight months, Kerri Garwood watched her son Daniel Wraight battle with a near-fatal brain injury that had left him bed-bound and unable to feed or walk by himself.

my little hero: Kerri Garwood with her son Daniel, 8, who overcame a near-fatal brain injury that had left him unable to feed or walk by himself

But now the plucky pupil, who attends Rush Green Junior School, in Rush Green, has just returned to the classroom after a long but successful journey back from a coma that was threatening his life.

The youngster, who suffered severe complications during an operation to remove fluid on his brain in May, was welcomed back to his class earlier this month, just two days after leaving hospital and returning home to his family in Rush Green Gardens.

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It has been a gruelling journey for Kerri, 28, who said that Daniel's spiralling deterioration began when he started to suffer from vision problems and headaches.

The mum-of-two said: "We visited the optician, who told us to take him straight to A&E, where we learned that he had water on the brain.

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Brentwood Gazette published Rush Green mum's joy as son learns to walk again after coma