# Paraplegic Man Suffers Spider Bite, Walks Again **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 13, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435 "2009-03-13T12:56:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/1 "2009-03-13T12:56:12Z")
WOW, lucky dude… > 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. > “I was walking on the bar back and forth,” he said. > Now David is out of the hospital and on his feet and walking. > David basks in his glory and gives a ray of hope to other hoping to walk again. The 48-year-old former boxer and dancer is taking it in stride, knowing his best days are still ahead. > David’s dream is to see his 14-year-old twin daughters grow up and get married so he can walk them down the aisle and have that first dance. [http://cbs13.com/watercooler/Paraplegic.Man.Suffers.2.958151.html](http://cbs13.com/watercooler/Paraplegic.Man.Suffers.2.958151.html) ---
**Author:** ![turbo\_ls1\_ss](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/turbo_ls1_ss/32/7303_2.png) [@turbo\_ls1\_ss](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/turbo_ls1_ss)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/2 "2009-03-13T13:00:59Z")
that’s great!.. my uncle is paralyzed,…i can kind of relate ---
**Author:** ![jay\_g](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jay_g/32/111288_2.png) [@jay\_g](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jay_g)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/3 "2009-03-13T13:03:44Z")
that’s awesome good for him ---
**Author:** ![Boomin99GT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boomin99gt/32/7306_2.png) [@Boomin99GT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boomin99GT)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/4 "2009-03-13T13:03:51Z")
That’s a nice story. I hope he didn’t smash the spider with a magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Moruitelda](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/moruitelda/32/5348_2.png) [@Moruitelda](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Moruitelda)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/5 "2009-03-13T13:05:47Z")
In before Spiderman jokes. In before Superman (Christopher Reeve) jokes. Nice story. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/6 "2009-03-13T13:05:53Z")
So did the spider bite have anything to do with it other than getting him to the hospital where the happened to find something? ---
**Author:** ![Minglor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/minglor/32/7373_2.png) [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/7 "2009-03-13T13:11:52Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > So did the spider bite have anything to do with it other than getting him to the hospital where the happened to find something? +1 ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/8 "2009-03-13T13:12:31Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > So did the spider bite have anything to do with it other than getting him to the hospital where the happened to find something? Doesn’t sound like it. Sounds like he had some really shitty Dr’s and the new people working with him on the spider bite finally addressed his wrong original diagnosis. ---
**Author:** ![turbo\_ls1\_ss](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/turbo_ls1_ss/32/7303_2.png) [@turbo\_ls1\_ss](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/turbo_ls1_ss)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/9 "2009-03-13T13:12:49Z")
> [@Minglor](#): > > +1 +2 ---
**Author:** ![Moruitelda](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/moruitelda/32/5348_2.png) [@Moruitelda](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Moruitelda)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/10 "2009-03-13T13:19:58Z")
He was paralyzed, in a wheelchair, with no sensation in his legs. He was bitten by a Brown Recluse. Post-bite, he developed a muscle spasm and nerve sensation (which can be caused by the chemicals in spider venom, by the way). It’s not outside the realm of possibility that the spider bite could have set in motion neurological activity that resulted in this, given the way that spider venom works. Unignored JayS for a post: “wrong original diagnosis?” He had no sensation or motor ability in his legs. Sounds like paralysis to me. :lol: ---
**Author:** ![BREETIME](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/breetime/32/5214_2.png) [@BREETIME](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BREETIME)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/11 "2009-03-13T13:28:07Z")
im sure he is feeling a new kind of happy right now good for him ---
**Author:** ![98SS10](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/98ss10/32/7288_2.png) [@98SS10](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/98SS10)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/12 "2009-03-13T13:28:13Z")
New hope to those of you with impotence. go find yerself a spider! ---
**Author:** ![drvnkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/drvnkd/32/109615_2.png) [@drvnkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/drvnkd)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/13 "2009-03-13T13:40:10Z")
Its cool that he gets to walk now, but I have a feeling he’s destined to fall into an open man hole or something and die. ---
**Author:** ![deebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deebo/32/5218_2.png) [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/14 "2009-03-13T13:51:11Z")
lol^ ---
**Author:** ![mickdad246](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mickdad246/32/7274_2.png) [@mickdad246](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mickdad246)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/15 "2009-03-13T14:15:43Z")
thats kinda cool… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/16 "2009-03-13T14:37:31Z")
I didn’t read the article just the quote, but does it say anything about the reasoning behind the bite causing him to walk again? Or was it just a pure fucking miracle… ---
**Author:** ![9ONA3OOZX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9ona3oozx/32/7242_2.png) [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/17 "2009-03-13T14:43:46Z")
that’s really cool to hear…i hate seeing wheelchair bound people…or people with missing or prosthetic limbs…it really breaks my heart to think of having to live your life without ever knowing what it’s like to be “normal” or just as bad, to have an accident change you like that forever… ---
**Author:** ![91MR2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/91mr2/32/7217_2.png) [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/18 "2009-03-13T14:54:26Z")
That’s amazing. ---
**Author:** ![StrokedZ28](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/strokedz28/32/7592_2.png) [@StrokedZ28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/StrokedZ28)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/19 "2009-03-13T15:24:02Z")
![http://www.tonnerdoll.com/2007Images/TONNER%202007/Spiderman/spiderman_6.jpg](http://www.tonnerdoll.com/2007Images/TONNER%202007/Spiderman/spiderman_6.jpg) Are we sure it wasn’t a radioactive spider, then tend to have strange effects on people too. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paraplegic-man-suffers-spider-bite-walks-again/64435/20 "2009-03-13T15:27:46Z")
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