Boy Injured In South Jersey School Bus Crash Improving

WILMINGTON, Del. (CBS) - A smiling Jonathan Zdybel walked into a hospital room waiving.

It's an image his parents and doctors call a miracle.

I'm feeling a lot stronger and a lot happier," said Zdybel.

Two and a half months ago he almost died, one day after celebrating his 11th birthday. "The main diagnosis was TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury. He also had a broken clavicle," said his mother Halina.

On the morning of Feb 16th, Jonathan was on the Chesterfield Elementary school bus with 24 other children, when the bus was struck by a dump truck. It happened at the intersection of Route 528 and Old York Road in Chesterfield Township.

Sixth grader Isabelle Tezsla, a triplet who was on the bus with her two sisters, died. Her sisters were injured.

"My heart goes out to them and what they've gone through," said Jonathan's father, Christopher.

On Friday, construction crews working on an expansion of Neumors Alfred I. Dupont Hospital in Wilmington, where Jonathan receives outpatient therapy five days week, allowed the sixth grader to help them blast some rock with the help of a mock detonator.

Jonathan was able to be a kid again, even though mentally, he's a lot wiser beyond his years when it comes to how he views his recovery process.

"Never give up hope," said Jonathan. "It will come eventually, it might take a while, but it will come."