This story was really interesting. I wonder why I haven’t seen more about it.
“He has been confined to a wheelchair for 20 years. Now a paraplegic man is walking again, and his doctors call it a miracle. CBS13 went to Manteca to find out how a spider bite helped get him back on his feet.
“I closed my eyes and then I was spinning like a flying saucer,” explains David Blancarte.
A motorcycle accident almost killed David 21 years ago. At the time he might have wished he was dead.“I asked my doctor, ‘Sir what happened? I can’t feel my legs’,” said David.
Ever since, David’s been relying on his wheelchair to get around. Then the spider bite. A Brown Recluse sent him to the hospital, then to rehab for eight months.
“I’m here for a spider bite. I didn’t know I would end up walking,” says David.
A nurse noticed David’s leg spasm and ran a test on him.
“When they zapped my legs, I felt the current, I was like ‘whoa’ and I yelled,” he says.
He felt the current and the rush of a renewed sense of hope.
“She says,’your nerves are alive. They’re just asleep’,” explained David.
Five days later David was walking.”
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