Nev Schulman reveals brutal injuries after breaking his neck in bike accident: ‘Lucky to be here’
Nev Schulman nearly died recently after getting into a bike accident.
The “Catfish” host, 39, posted an Instagram on Saturday with details about the accident, in which he broke his neck, and photos of his brutal injuries.
He explained that on Monday he was on his bike heading to his son’s school to pick him up when a crash with a truck occurred.
“I was alone and unconscious. And then conscious,” Schulman wrote in his caption. “Maybe I was fine (I wasn’t). Maybe I can still do my long run on Thursday (I couldn’t).”
“I broke my neck,” he continued. “C5 and C6 to be exact. Stable fractures. I’m not paralyzed. My hands were a question mark there for a minute but the human body is incredible and so are HUMANS.”
After thanking the “incredible” medical workers who helped him after the accident, Schulman noted that he came close to death in the crash.
“I’m lucky to be here, alive, standing and hugging my family, projected to make a full recovery,” he said. “And I’m really starting to understand the meaning of gratitude. For the big and little things before the accident, and now everything moving forward.”
The first slide on Schulman’s post featured a trigger warning for the footage of “medical trauma and severe injury.”
He posted pictures of the scans of his neck injury from the hospital, the surgery scar on the back of his neck and his broken helmet that he was wearing during the accident.
Schulman shared a sweet video that his wife Laura Perlongo took of him hugging their three children — Cleo James, 7, Beau Bobby Bruce, 5, and Cy Monroe, 2 — as he got out of his hospital bed with his neck brace on.
In another photo, Perlongo laid in bed to next to her husband as he was recovering from his surgery.
Perlongo took another video of Schulman down the hallway in the hospital with a physical therapist beside him.
“I feel like I’m in a tuxedo,” said Schulman, who had his neck brace on in the video.
“I’ve never felt more dressed in my life,” he added.
The final picture from Schulman’s post featured the family of five sitting on a boat in the middle of the water the day before the accident.
“I went fishing with my family on Sunday,” Schulman wrote at the start of his caption in reference to the family picture.
“It was incredible, my son’s idea,” the “Dancing With the Stars” Season 29 finalist continued. “One of those days that just work. We found an available boat (thank you captain ben!) and caught all kinds of fish, most of which we threw back because they were too cute. Especially the puffer. It was magical. A day full of love and wonder in the way only calm days in nature with family can be.”
“Monday was not a day like that,” Schulman added, as he explained the details about the traumatic crash.
At the end of his caption, Schulman wrote, “We hadn’t planned on fishing last Sunday and my instinct was to say no to scramble-planning a day trip, but looking back a week later, I’m so glad I said yes ❤️.”
