Westford Principal Kevin Lacoste Grateful, ‘Living A New Life’ After Spinal Cord Injury

BOSTON — A beloved educator is back home in Westford, a house now completely renovated by volunteers to make it wheelchair accessible. Kevin LaCoste was paralyzed in a freak accident last summer when he fell out of a tree while playing with his children.

LaCoste, an elementary school principal, spoke to WBZ-TV on Tuesday about his recovery, his gratitude and the long road ahead.

“I wake up each and every day, living a new life that I never thought I would be living,” he said.

In July, LaCoste was playing with his children when he thought it would be fun to hide from them by climbing a tree in his Westford front yard.

“I decided to make one more reach for the limb above me and slipped and fell,” he recalled.

LaCoste’s spinal cord injury means he’s paralyzed below the chest.

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