Search expert and Google engineer Sasha Blair-Goldesohn was enjoying a walk through New York’s Central Park on Wednesday morning when a 100-pound rotting tree branch fell and struck him in the head. Blair-Goldesohn is now in a coma.
Doctors immediately performed a procedure to reduce the swelling and put him on a ventilator to help him breathe because his lung was damaged by the branch.
The family was hoping Blair-Goldensohn would “wake up” after the pressure on his brain subsided, uncle Marty Goldensohn said.
“He hasn’t really woken up,” the uncle said, although the family at first thought he had responded to his grandparents. “He’s young and healthy, we’re hopeful.”
Following the incident, the Parks Department inspected trees in the area and found them to be in good condition, except of course, for the branch that fell.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
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