Thirteen-year-old Dakota “Cody” Trenkle, Jr., is making a miraculous recovery after falling 240 feet into a ravine, where he spent three days alone without food or water.

Cody is now awake after spending 11 days in a medically induced coma, according to KSDK-TV .

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Stephanie Neely, his mother, knew her son was going to recover, she said, when he looked at her and used the sign language symbol for “I love you.”

“I cried,” she said from his bedside at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. “I started bawling. That was the sign I really needed. … I could finally take a deep breath and finally got some sleep that night because, in my mom heart, I knew he was going to be OK.”

The fact Cody was even found is incredible.

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