Next 72 Hours Critical for Paralyzed Player
(CBS/AP) It's a hit that's hard to watch. In the aftermath, Rutgers Junior Eric LeGrand lay on the football field, moving his head as if willing to move his body. But it didn't respond.
And, according to his doctors, has not responded since.
LeGrand, only 20, is now paralyzed below the neck. But at a press conference yesterday his doctors at Hackensack University Medical Center emphasized that the next 72 hours are critical for the fate of the promising young man from Avenel, N.J.
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