Steve Laurencine is a walking miracle.
Twenty five years ago, a motorcycle crash left him in a coma and brain damaged. He couldn't even open his mouth. He was told he might not be able to walk, or talk, ever again.
But Laurencine defied the odds.
"I said my son isn't going to die, he's going to live," said his mother Jean Laurencine. "So I promised him…I said, ‘Steve, I'll do whatever it takes to help you.'"
And even though the crash robbed him of his ability to speak for a while, Steve Laurencine is now a recording artist and guitar player.
Twenty years after his injury, he recorded his first single for his mom and a few years after that, recorded a full record.
"I really can't believe that that's me singing there," said Laurencine.
His recovery was a painstaking one. It took him nine months to come out of his coma.
"He needed to learn how to do everything all over again," said Laurencine's sister, Michelle Theobalds. "He needed to learn to speak, he needed to learn to feed himself, he need to learn to walk again."
And from such a desperate situation, Laurencine has a message of hope to share.
"There's always a light, there's always a light," he said. "Don't give up because there's always a light."
With a report from CTV Ottawa's John Hua
