Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Window washer who fell 47 floors likely to walk again says stunned doctor

He fell 47 stories, breaking his ribs and right arm, shattering both legs and injuring his spine.

He needed 24 units of blood, had a catheter inserted into his brain and underwent at least 14 operations in the 28 days since his Dec. 7 plunge.

He was in a coma for weeks after the horrifying 500-foot fall that killed his brother, but window washer Alcides Moreno is awake, talking and likely to walk again, his doctors said Thursday.

“If you’re a believer in miracles, this would be one,” said Dr. Philip Barie, chief of critical care at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.

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