A 37-year-old window-washer who fell from the 47th floor of a skyscraper nearly a month ago, on Dec. 7, has made a miraculous recovery and is already able to move and talk to his family.

Alcides Moreno, 37, was washing windows when he fell 47 stories from an Upper East Side apartment building on Dec. 7. The New York Daily News reports city officials are of the opinion that the 16-foot scaffolding he was on with his brother, a fellow window-washer, fell because cables connecting it to the roof failed.

Edgar, Moreno’s older brother, did not survive the accident.

The paper goes on to quote doctors at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center telling reporters Thursday that Moreno broke both legs, an arm and a wrist and suffered brain and spinal injuries.

Despite undergoing nine orthopedic surgeries, doctors said they expected him to make a full recovery within a year, becoming able once more to walk and “almost ready to resume a normal life.”

The New York Times adds that the man was given approximately 24 pints of blood and 19 pints of plasma and underwent an operation to open his abdomen in the emergency room. Doctors reportedly did not wish to take any risks by moving him into an operating room.

“I've seen it all - or at least I think I have - until something like this happens,” said Dr. Philip Barie, chief of the hospital's critical care division, as quoted by the Daily News.

Moreno spoke his first words on Christmas Day, asking his wife, “What did I do?” A few days later, his youngest son Andrew was allowed to see him for the first time since the accident and said “I miss you,” the Daily News reports.

Moreno answered, “I miss you, too.”