A Mustang High School sophomore who was hit by a truck while riding his motorcycle in July left the hospital after less than two months, his family told News 9 on Tuesday.

Doctors initially told Ryder VanNoy's family that he would be in the hospital for about five months, but his loved ones held a going-home parade for him on the 49th and final day of his stay.

"It's just crazy to me to think that 49 days ago, when we walked into the hospital for the first time, we were met by the police and the chaplain, and we were told that Ryder probably was not going to make it,” his mom Leslie Cooper recalled.

With a traumatic brain injury and multiple broken bones, Ryder said, “I don’t remember a single bit of coming in here.”

He came to realize he was in the hospital just two weeks ago. That’s

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