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.
“To see all the people who supported me, it’s awesome,” Apuzzo said. “It just really makes me happy.”…