Jesse Malin paralyzed after suffering rare spinal stroke; determined to recover his body

Musician Jesse Malin suffered a rare spinal stroke in May which has left him paralyzed from the waist down. The singer recalled the health emergency in an interview with Rolling Stone. The unfortunate incident happened while he was at dinner in the East Village on May 4.

‘Everybody was standing above me like in Rosemary’s Baby, saying all these different things, and I was there not knowing what was going on with my body,’ Malin told the outlet.

‘This is the hardest six weeks that I’ve ever had. I’m told that they don’t really understand it, and they’re not sure of the chances. The reports from the doctors have been tough, and there’s moments in the day where you want to cry, and where you’re scared. But I keep saying to myself that I can make this happen. I can recover my body,’ he said.

Malin underwent various spinal procedures at Mount Sinai before being transferred to a rehab center at NYU on May 18.

Malin admitted that it can be difficult to keep the ‘P.M.A.’ — positive mental attitude — that he’s often preaching about.

‘It’s almost like a joke. Like, ‘You talk all this P.M.A.? Well, see how you deal with this,’ he said.
‘They took me outside for the first time the other day in a wheelchair, and I went through the lobby and I could see the sun shining through the glass, and I just started bawling.

It felt like I was watching myself in this movie. I didn’t know this person. By the time I got to the corner, I got myself together and into a park, and just breathed in the air,’ Malin told Rolling Stone.

Jesse Malin will be discharged later this month and will be in a wheelchair while he continues to recover.

‘I didn’t want to get into the extremity of it. And now it’s just time to let people know. Even though I really believe it’s a temporary state, I’m not going to walk out of here tomorrow with a leather jacket and a cane and go hang out at the bar.

It’s going to take a lot of work and a lot of being in a wheelchair,’ he said.
‘There’s something liberating about the truth, that this is what’s happening to me right now,’ he continued.

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