John sustained an incomplete spinal cord injury (causing central cord syndrome) while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean this afternoon.
We are so grateful to the Good Samaritans who saw it happen and pulled him out of the water immediately, the life guards who kept him stable until the paramedics got there, the paramedics and State Troopers who got him to the hospital -- and the trauma surgeon who happened to be on the beach and kept us all calm while we waited for the paramedics.
