Six weeks after suffering a serious workplace accident, senior Angelina Vuong has successfully come out of a medically-induced coma, and continues to receive support from the SCHS community.

In mid-April,, Vuong suffered a life-threatening injury at work, leaving her in critical condition and forcing her to go through many surgeries.

Despite the mishap, Vuong attended senior prom at the end of May  with her boyfriend William Choi, a freshman at De Anza College. That night, Vuong  was named prom queen and was even able to share a dance with the prom king, senior Christopher Pence.

Last week, Vuong also attended the campus’s Goodbye Rally, pushed in a wheelchair by her mother.

As Vuong’s medical bills have mounted,  the school community has rallied to her support, raising money  to relieve some of her family’s financial stress.

From May 18 through May 29, Everyone Fighting Cancer Club and Key Club led the “Aid for Angie” fundraiser where club officials placed donation buckets in classrooms all over campus. The clubs raised over $300, which will be contributed to the fund which the Santa Clara Firefighters Foundation (SCFF) established for Vuong.

In addition, 30 percent of Interact’s proceeds from their corsage and boutonniere sale for prom, $217, is also going to Vuong’s fund through SCFF.

Although SCHS’s En Soiree, scheduled for May 21 and 22, planned to donate all of the ticket sales to Vuong, the event was cancelled due to lack of necessary equipment.

Even so, Vuong said she is grateful for the support she has received over the past month.

“I never expected so much support and I owe them all a huge thank you for their time and effort,” said Vuong of the campus community.

As for her future, Vuong will attend the graduation ceremony this Friday and will  delay her acceptance to University of California, Irvine.  She will instead attend De Anza College this fall, with plans to transfer to UC Irvine her sophomore year.