By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter Producer
MANHATTAN — A young musician who fell off a Chelsea balcony and impaled his head on a spiked fence is on the mend, the New York Post reported.
Nicholas Blossom was recovering faster than doctors predicted, the paper said on Sunday. He's been recovering from the injury at Bellevue Hospital.
"He's doing very well," Blossom's roommate Corey Mulee told the Post. "The family is really happy."
Blossom, who was speaking and even joking from his hospital bed just hours after the plunge at 4 a.m. Saturday, was lucky to be alive after attending a rooftop party on Sixth Avenue, near 26th Street, when he fell.
A piece of the fence was still lodged in his scalp when he arrived at Bellevue Hospital, the Post said.
"I just want to f- - -ing scream," Blossom wailed to family members from his bed inside the intensive care unit, according to the Post.
A Berkeley, California, native who moved to Williamsburg earlier this year, Blossom had been a student at Earlham College in Indiana before dropping out to move to New York in September, the Post said.
He is now the drummer for a band called "Alaska Alaska," according to the group's myspace page.
Blossom had been sitting alone on a ledge, screaming that he "hated everybody" before falling one storey onto the fence, which was attached to the second-floor balcony of the adjacent apartment building, police told the Post.
Neighbors called the NYPD to report an emotionally disturbed person hollering from the roof before Blossom fell, according to the paper.
"He is out of surgery and making some jokes," Blossom's mother, Emily, told the Post. "The doctor tells us that he was very lucky."
