Family, friends and Sigma Alpha Mu brothers flocked to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center this week to visit the Boston University student who remains in critical but stable condition from injuries sustained in a fire on Linden Street on Sunday.
“He’s doing much better,” said Jake Magid, president of Sigma Alpha Mu. “He is starting to heal, they’re just waiting for the swelling to go down and for him to start to regain some of his abilities from before.”
Josh Goldenberg, a College of Communication sophomore, remains unconscious after suffering severe injuries to the head. He jumped from the burning apartment and was hospitalized, along with six other students who survived the 7 a.m. fire at 84 Linden St. Only Goldenberg and one other student remain hospitalized.
“His condition is stable, but the nature of the injury is such that it’s going to take a while for them to know exactly how severe it is,” Magid, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said. “So basically, they just have to play the waiting game at this point,”
Goldenberg was already showing clear signs of recovery on Monday, said COM junior Alex Epner, Goldenberg’s roommate and a member of Sigma Alpha Mu.
“I only wish that he gets better soon and that his parents will get to talk to their son again,” Epner said via Facebook message. “He’s always been one of my strongest friends, both physically and emotionally, and I know that if anyone could make it through this trying experience, it’s him.”
Each time someone comes back from the hospital, more positive news surfaces about Goldenberg, said Sigma Alpha Mu member Jeremy Meltzer, a junior in Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
Epner said he felt a sense of guilt that his roommate is the one in the hospital in place of himself, he said.
BU officials, friends and fraternity brothers declined to release the other student’s name to protect her privacy.
“The most important thing is that they’re both improving daily,” Meltzer said.
