Last modified: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:47 PM EDT Andrew Ledoux, a graduating senior at Seekonk High School, overcame a stroke and surgery, which took place during the summer of 2007. Ledoux dressed as Superman - Clark Kent for a recent superhero day at the school. (Staff photo by Mike George) Back on track after a scary setback BY JOSEPH S. SIEGEL FOR THE SUN CHRONICLE SEEKONK - Seekonk High School senior Andrew Ledoux survived the worst ordeal of his young life last summer, when a stroke left him paralyzed on one side of his body. While working at a local pizzeria, Andrew experienced a loss of feeling in his leg. A week later, he was at his job when he felt numbness in his arm. "My whole left side was numb, and then I knew something was wrong," Andrew recalled. Andrew's parents rushed him to Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, where they learned he had suffered a stroke. Not long after, he suffered two more strokes and was kept in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit, where he would remain for two months. "They don't know how this happened, but all they knew is they had to fix it," Andrew said of his doctors. Surgeons operated on Andrew, performing a right carotid artery bypass. Months of intense physical therapy followed before he was able to make a full recovery. "It really wasn't that bad being there for me," Andrew said of his time at Hasbro. "It was just hard on my parents, and on my friends that saw me in there." Andrew became friends with the staff and fellow patients at the hospital, and still corresponds with many of them. Tutors helped him catch up on his schoolwork while he was hospitalized. In the fall, Andrew plans to attend American International College in Springfield, where he will study occupational therapy.