We never gave up hope and we never gave up our faith that we would get him through this somehow and that we'd have people that would help us get him through this.

It's OK to hope again. It's OK to look into his future now where as we were never able to do that before.

We were told that he could have a kidney transplant but chances were that in a couple of years his kidneys would just fail again.

Acid runs through his body all the time. High levels of acid all the time. It got to the point his kidneys failed.

We hope these lamentable detentions are just temporary ... I wish they could just resolve this in a civilized manner.

I think it's a humanitarian gesture on the part of the Canadian government and we now hope our government will continue the process of prisoner releases. Right now, 110 people have been released, which means that the number of political prisoners in Cuba is diminishing.