Paraplegic walks again after a spider bite

A paraplegic man confined to a wheelchair for 20 years due to a motorcycle accident is walking again after suffering a bite from a Brown Recluse spider.

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.

Posted March 15, 2009