Farrah Nunuzov, the kiteboarder who was found unresponsive in Nantucket Harbor last Monday, has emerged from a coma at Mass General in Boston, according to his friend Sunnatilla Arifdjanov.
Nunuzov, a 48-year-old carpenter, was rescued from the water by the Nantucket Moorings crew and off-duty firefighter Ray DeCosta. He was rushed to Nantucket Cottage Hospital and transported by MedFlight helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Arifdjanov told the Current on Friday that Nunuzov is still not talking because he remains on a ventilator, but was awake and able to respond to the physicians caring for him. He had surgery due to broken ribs and seawater ingested into his lungs. There was also a three-inch laceration on the back of his head that was stitched up by the medical team on Nantucket before he was Medflighted off…