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A special graduation in Boston on Wednesday — a patient of Shriners Children’s Boston for the past seven years is heading back home to Honduras with a new prosthetic hand. Juan Diego, 20, is in his newborn era — touching, grabbing, just about everything, thanks to his new prosthetic hand.See the story in the video above"The first week I got it, like I just opened the apartment’s refrigerator, just started to grab every single thing that I got in there," Diego said.Diego has been a patient of Shriners Children’s Boston for the past seven years, ever since an electrical accident in his home country of Honduras left his hands disfigured with several fingers amputated."I was unable to do any activity — like any activity, like I was truly dependent on my parents," Diego said. NewsCenter 5 first spoke with Diego back in 2018, shortly after he arrived in Boston. Now he is graduating from care at Shriners Children’s, with his final appointment on Wednesday. It will also be an opportunity for Diego to say thank you to the medical team, that has been with him every step of the way."Now you can see it’s almost like the picture has been completed and he’s ready to move on to that next stage of his journey," Lori Connolly said, the therapeutic services director at Shriners Children’s.That journey will be easier thanks to all of those who lent a hand along the way, and who will be watching as Diego takes hold of his future."Just being able to have it seven years later, when I’m truly independent, it’s like the best story written," Diego said.