Whicker: The reawakening of Daniel Franco

RIALTO — Late last week Daniel Franco used a walker. He moved down the hall of the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Omaha, Neb.
A few days later he ditched the walker, and attendants kept him upright.
On Tuesday he walked without help.
He can have chocolate ice cream, although not much, since the vocal cords haven’t sorted themselves out and his windpipe is vulnerable. The sounds he makes are raspy and guttural, but they wind up as words, sometimes off-color. His mom Teresa jokes t