“Catfish” star Nev Schulman he said lucky to have survived a crash last week involving his bike and a truck on Long Island.
“I broke my neck,” he posted on Instagram alongside photos from Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. “C5 and C6 to be exact. Stable fractures. I am not paralyzed.”
Schulman said he was on his way to pick up his son from school Monday when the crash happened. What happened next is a bit hazy.
“I was alone about the impact. Me and the truck. And then I assume the pavement,” he wrote. – I was alone and unconscious. And then conscious.”
The 39-year-old documentary filmmaker likened his success to “Catfish“, a 2010 film about fake identities online, by creating the MTV series “Catfish: The TV Show”, which deals with the same subject.
The story he told on Instagram seems very real.
“It’s true what they say – life can change in an instant,” he wrote.
According to Schulman, his wreck came a day after he and his family spent a sunny Sunday fishing. Most of their catches were thrown back into the water, “because they were too sweet,” he said. He expressed gratitude for the day and for the fact that he had yet to pick up his son on Monday when he collided with a truck.
Schulman is also thankful for the fact that his injuries weren’t as bad as they could have been.
“I am lucky to be here, alive, standing and hugging my family, who are expected to make a full recovery,” Schulman wrote. “And I’m really starting to understand the meaning of gratitude.”
The C5-C6 vertebrae that Schulman injured are located near the base of the neck and “provides flexibility and support to large areas of the neck and head above“, according to Spine-health.com.