‘Catfish’ hunter Nev Schulman running NYC Marathon three months after breaking his neck
nypost.comTCS New York City Marathon on Nov. 3 at all is miraculous — he fractured his neck just three months ago in a bike accident, and doctors feared he might not walk again.“I just remember the look on every nurse and doctor’s face as they came into the room for the first time … expecting me to be some version of paralyzed, and being so shocked, and almost confused,” Schulman, 40, told The Post.“They’d all come in and do the same tests every few hours.
They would touch my feet and they’d say, ‘Do you feel this?’ . . . I became very aware over the course of that first 48 hours [in the ICU] how close I came to not potentially walking out of the hospital — or walking — ever again.”The host of MTV’s “Catfish,” was riding his bike in the Hamptons Aug.
5 to pick up his son from camp, when he attempted to merge into a lane of traffic and slammed into a truck.“And somehow in the moments that I looked over my shoulder . . .
traffic had come to a stop and I actually rear ended a truck, flew over my handlebars and hit my head into the back of this truck,” he explained.Doctors at Southampton Hospital discovered he had a fracture in his neck, and he was rushed to Stony Brook Hospital for surgery.The Upper East Side native was in the midst of training for a half marathon and asked his doctor when he could run again.“He’s like, ‘You’re going to be in a neck brace for at least six weeks . . .
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