ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, Mo. - Cody Trenkle, 13, is back home after being rescued from a ravine more than a month ago.

"You did it, dude!" Stephanie Neely said as she embraced her son, Cody, after walking out of Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital on Friday.

Cody has been asking to go home ever since he woke up from a coma in early August.

"They took way too much of my blood for me to want to stay here," he said with laughter on Friday.

On July 27, Cody went missing after going out to ride his skateboard in St. Francois County. The community spent days searching for him.

When he was found three days later, it was discovered that he had fallen 240 feet down a ravine. He suffered from multiple skull fractures, brain bleeds and lacerations all over his body. Cody spent 11 days in a medic

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