California: In what doctors are calling a miracle, 48-year-old Manteca resident David Blancarte can walk again after 20 years thanks to being bitten by the highly venomous brown recluse spider. He was left a paraplegic after a motorcycle accident.
After getting out of the hospital from the bite, he spent eight months in rehabilitation. A test was run by a nurse on his leg to investigate a spasm. "When they zapped my legs, I felt the current, I was like 'whoa' and I yelled."
"She says, 'your nerves are alive. They're just asleep.'" After that, it only took five days before he could abandon his wheelchair and leave the hospital. He's hopeful he'll now be able to walk his twin daughters down the aisle someday.
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