Dakota “Cody” Trenkle Jr. — the teen who went missing for three days before a police dog found him severely injured at the bottom of a ravine in Missouri on July 30 — is home after fighting for his life in a hospital.

The 13-year-old, who survived a 240-foot fall into the ravine, returned to his home in late August before Labor Day weekend for the first time since he went missing on July 27 while skateboarding in Goose Creek Lake.

Due to the fall, Dakota suffered severe head trauma, several brain bleeds, fractures on his skull, deep wounds to his body and weakened kidneys. Dakota was immediately airlifted to a St. Louis hospital and placed in a medically induced coma for two weeks before he woke up .

Dakota and his mother, Stephanie Neely, gave PEOPLE an update on his recovery proce

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