When Prabhesh Patel was 5 years old, his father was killed in a car accident that also severely injured his mother. “She went into a coma for about three months,” he tells ĻӰԺ’s Krys Boyd. “She couldn’t remember my parents or my dad, or really that I was even her son, which was a little scary.”
As his mom recovered, Prabhesh poured his energy into school and work. He graduated from Fort Worth’s South Hills High School last spring, and he’s now on a full scholarship at .
In , Prabhesh and five other students will talk about what it takes to finish school. The program airs on ĻӰԺ TV Wednesday at 7 p.m.