Ken Prager’s son Joshua, a journalist and author, had a similar C3-C4 spinal cord accident to Dennis’s accident. Joshua was 19, hurt in a car accident in Israel, and he was initially a quadriplegic. Now he’s just paralyzed on his left side.
Dennis and Kenneth’s father had a similar spinal cord injury that left him a paraplegic for the last two years of his life.
Ken said Dennis’s mind is fine, that Dennis is making progress, but right now Dennis can’t move his arms and legs. Dennis is able to move a toe. He has sensations in his arms. If you touch his arm, he can feel that.
Dennis can’t speak. At times, Dennis can breathe without a ventilator and without a cpap. Dennis may be able to speak in the next week.
Ken Prager flew into Los Angeles to see Dennis at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center the day after the accident.
Latest update on @DennisPrager from his brother Dr. Kenneth Prager. @prageru pic.twitter.com/l3IpiyZ17s
— Marissa Streit (@marissastreit) December 20, 2024
In a video released Dec. 20, 2024, pulmonologist Dr. Kenneth Prager tells the CEO of PragerU, Marissa Streit: “I flew out to LA the day after he fell when he was in the ICU at Cedars-Sinai. He had just been transferred. He was on the ventilator. He has no recollection… In terms of a spinal cord injury of this nature, my son Joshua had the exact same spinal cord injury at C3-C4. He was in a motor vehicle accident in Israel in 1990 that almost killed him. When I flew out to see him, he was quadraplegic on a ventilator. He made a significant recovery and was able to walk again. He has been paralyzed on the left side of his body ever since.”
“Our father Max, the last two years of his life, had a spinal cord injury which left him paraplegic as the result of a medical procedure when he was 94.”
“Dennis, he’s awake, he’s alert, he has his sense of humor. The key goal now is to get him off the ventilator. When somebody has a spinal cord injury in the area Dennis has, it affects the nerves that do most of the work of breathing.”
