from Howard County Times By Janene Holzberg,
When she enters Nathan Krasnopoler’s room at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Susan Cohen gives her middle child a special physical therapy workout. She gingerly raises each of his arms above his head and then manipulates his wrists, ankles and legs to get his joints and muscles moving.
“All that motion gets his one eye to open, and I try to get him to track with my hand, but he never does,” she said. “Then I call his name to see if he’ll respond, which he doesn’t. Lastly, I talk to him about current news events, like the disaster in Japan.
“I have no idea if he hears me or not, but I do it anyway.”
Cohen plans to continue her daily routine, even though doctors recently told the Ellicott City family that Krasnopoler will never regain cognitive function or have “a meaningful recovery” following an accident nearly two months ago.
Krasnopoler, a 20-year-old sophomore at Johns Hopkins University, recently entered his seventh week in a coma after he was struck by a motorist Feb. 26 at 11:50 a.m. while bicycling northbound on University Parkway near 39th Street, in Baltimore.
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