Rock musician Jesse Malin, whose hardcore band was famously banned from "Saturday Night Live" in 1981, suffered a rare spinal stroke earlier this year, causing him to be paralyzed from the waist down, according to a report.
While out to dinner with friends on May 4 at an Italian restaurant in Manhattan's East Village, Malin suddenly collapsed to the floor, according to Rolling Stone. The group was commemorating the one-year anniversary of the death of Malin's best friend and former D Generation bandmate Howie Pyro.
Malin was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital where he learned that he suffered a spinal cord infarction — a rare disorder when the main arteries supplying the spine with blood close off — affecting the use of his legs. After two weeks of undergoing spinal tests at Mount Sinai, he was transferred to a neurological care center at NYU Langone Hospital where he continues to recover, according to a fundraiser set up in his name, adding that the condition is inoperable.
