Man Paralyzed by Shark Attack Recovers After Following Food GuruPlan

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trying to get her to help him with his diet. He eats horribly.

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Sunday, February 14, 2010 9:23 AM

Man Paralyzed by Shark Attack Recovers After

Following Food GuruPlan

 

 

Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:27 am (PST)

Feb 8th 2010 By _John Scott Lewinski_

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Paralyzed Shark-Attack Victim Fights His Way Back to His Feet

 

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Bruce Lurie (right) never saw the shark that hit him so hard it nearly

snapped his spinal cord in two off the Southern California coast back in

March

2006.

Local experts believe it was probably a tiger shark, based on the size

of

the beast and the time of year. The animal probably mistook Lurie and

his

boogie board for a seal -- since a colony of the mammals had been seen

in

the area.

The shark never got his rows of teeth into the successful lawyer, but

the

sheer force of the sudden attack battered him so hard that he was left

paralyzed, unconscious and drowning.

" I suffered an immediate and catastrophic spinal cord injury, " Lurie

said

from his home in Los Angeles. " I would've drowned, but my son pulled me

out

of the water -- and passersby on the beach who knew CPR managed to

resuscitate me. "

Lurie was left a quadriplegic -- paralyzed below the neck. Even at the

specialized spine hospital, his weakened body came down with multiple

internal

infections after undergoing major surgery to repair the broken neck.

Hydrated by IVs and breathing only with the help of a respirator, Lurie

couldn't

swallow or speak.

" He wasn't expected to live, let alone walk again, " Janice Ryan, Lurie's

longtime personal assistant said. His family prepared for the worst.

" The saddest part was seeing him weakened like that, " Ryan added. " He

has such a big personality -- very sharp and cantankerous. He's a

character --

though he was losing his strength in the hospital. But he stayed

determined. "

When a patient can't swallow food or drink, hospitals insert a feeding

tube directly into the stomach. During the three months Lurie spent in

Craig

Hospital, he was staying alive on what amounted to baby formula.

" Fortunately, we heard about a Dr. Joel Fuhrman at Stanford who was

studying super-nutrient food, " says Ryan.

Fuhrman consulted with Craig Hospital staff to devise a way to get real

food -- fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts -- into Lurie's feeding tube.

Sticking to Luhrman's recipe and employing a store-bought VitaMix

blender, Lurie started to " eat " again.

 

" Almost immediately after I started on the real food, my infections were

completely healed, " Lurie said. " I started feeling better and was able

to

breathe without the ventilator. I learned to swallow again and was able

to

begin eating whole foods by mouth. "

More importantly, Ryan said his fighting spirit returned in full force,

and the sharp- tongued lawyer and full-time curmudgeon got back to his

feet and took his first steps in three years in November 2009.

 

Though he still suffers from paralysis, Lurie continues physical therapy

and is practicing law again in the Los Angeles trenches. If you're in

any

legal trouble in L.A., you could do worse than hire a man who quite

literally

swam with the sharks and survived to walk again.

 

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