He's been confined to a wheelchair for 20 years. Now a paraplegic man is walking again. And his doctors call it a miracle.
A motorcycle accident almost killed David Blancarte 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.
"I was walking on the bar back and forth," he said. Now David is out of the hospital and on his feet and walking.
With news video.
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