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mushroom_maiden in wtf_nature

Paraplegic Suffers a Spider Bite, Walks Again

Mar 15, 2009 00:04

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ebenizer March 15 2009, 00:12:11 UTC

We should loose brown recluses on all cripples

mushroom_maiden March 15 2009, 00:42:38 UTC

yeah I was thinking "I hope this doesn't make all cripples go and aggravate brown recluse spiders..."

wayya March 15 2009, 00:16:55 UTC

Huh.

Even if his nerves were "alive", you'll have to explain to me how muscles that weren't used for 20 years allowed him to walk after five days.

lady_borg March 15 2009, 00:20:37 UTC

it would not be much walking and it was proably assisted. It said he was in rehab for eight months. So they might have been the time it took for him to walk on his own.

wayya March 15 2009, 00:28:40 UTC

I don't know, I read it like he was in therapy for 8 month for the spider bite before realizing he could walk.

ag_sasami March 15 2009, 04:16:36 UTC

I don't know much about recluse bites, but I don't imagine you'd be in physical therapy for 8 months over one.

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iyoichi March 15 2009, 00:56:01 UTC

SPIDERMAN, SPIDERMAN
DOES WHATEVER A SPIDER CAN
SPINS A WEB, ANY SIZE
CATCHES THIEVES JUST LIKE FLIES
LOOK OUT!
HERE COMES THE SPIDERMAN.

mushroom_maiden March 15 2009, 00:56:36 UTC

dewdropper March 15 2009, 01:04:37 UTC

They probably left out the fact that he's suddenly ripped and has perfect eyesight because they didn't know it was related.

mushroom_maiden March 15 2009, 04:00:14 UTC

yeah, exactly!

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firemarble March 15 2009, 01:32:00 UTC

OMG MANTECA!

That is really freaking cool. He gets to live his dream now!

riotous_prole March 15 2009, 01:54:53 UTC

Upcoming research - extract venom of spiders and their neurological effects/benefits to paraplegic patients.

[/nerd in me]

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jesuisgringoire March 15 2009, 09:23:13 UTC

I was going to say that's some intense psyche he's got there, but I actually know a nurse who works for a guy who now walks, having been in a wheelchair for two years because his mother insisted on it and he spent so long in the chair he lost muscle tone entirely. his nursing assistant convinced him to move away from momma, was a real meanie-head to him and wouldn't give him his chair, and he is now walking around without crutches.

jokergirl March 16 2009, 15:09:11 UTC

Doubt it, but there ARE cases now and then of para/quadriplegic people getting some nerve function back after a while. My bet is on that it was that and he had the luck that it got discovered because he was in the hospital anyway.
Although spider bite = cure would be cool.

;)

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