Long Beach Teen Walks Out of Hospital to Cheers After Recovering From Paralyzing Spinal Injury

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A 15-year-old high school athlete, left paralyzed after diving headfirst into a sandbar, walked out of a Long Beach hospital Wednesday to the cheers of dozens of supporters.

Alessandro Apuzzo suffered a severe spinal injury during the Fourth of July holiday and has spent the last four months learning how to walk again at Miller Children's & Women's Hospital. Wednesday morning, dozens of his family members, friends, medical staff and even the Long Beach lifeguards who saved him, gathered outside the hospital to congratulate him.

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