{"id":158402,"date":"2024-12-23T14:06:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=158402"},"modified":"2025-01-19T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T23:23:52","slug":"dennis-prager-update-from-his-brother-dr-kenneth-prager-pulmonologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=158402","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager Update From His Brother Dr. Kenneth Prager (Pulmonologist)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Prager&#8217;s son <A HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joshua_Prager_(writer)\">Joshua<\/a>, a journalist and author, had a similar C3-C4 spinal cord accident to Dennis&#8217;s accident. Joshua was 19, hurt in a car accident in Israel, and he was initially a quadriplegic. Now he&#8217;s just paralyzed on his left side. <\/p>\n<p>Dennis and Kenneth&#8217;s father had a similar spinal cord injury that left him a paraplegic for the last two years of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Ken said Dennis&#8217;s mind is fine, that Dennis is making progress, but right now Dennis can&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis can&#8217;t speak. At times, Dennis can breathe without a ventilator and without a cpap. Dennis may be able to speak in the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Prager flew into Los Angeles to see Dennis at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center the day after the accident. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Latest update on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DennisPrager?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DennisPrager<\/a> from his brother Dr. Kenneth Prager. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prageru?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@prageru<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l3IpiyZ17s\">pic.twitter.com\/l3IpiyZ17s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marissa Streit (@marissastreit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marissastreit\/status\/1870244497256292571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a video released Dec. 20, 2024, pulmonologist Dr. Kenneth Prager tells the CEO of PragerU, Marissa Streit: &#8220;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&#8230; 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dennis, he&#8217;s awake, he&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Prager&#8217;s son Joshua, a journalist and author, had a similar C3-C4 spinal cord accident to Dennis&#8217;s accident. Joshua was 19, hurt in a car accident in Israel, and he was initially a quadriplegic. 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