'I tried to get up to have another shower, and when I tried to get up from the bed, I just literally fell off,” Luis Vega told TODAY. “My legs were not able to handle the weight of my body, and that was pretty scary.”
putting pressure on his spinal cord, Dr. Wesley Bronson, spine surgeon and assistant professor in the department of orthopedic surgery at Mount Sinai, told TODAY.
The condition Vega developed, which Bronson described as"exceedingly rare," is called a spontaneous epidural hematoma. Essentially, that means that Vega had a spontaneous bleed in his spine, which became large enough to put significant pressure on his spinal cord — to the point that it caused paralysis in his legs, Bronson explained.
While Vega and his medical team still don’t have concrete answers about why this happened, he’s just focusing on recovery — and how lucky he's been in such an unlucky situation.
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