“I am starting to think about the future for the first time in this whole year, and it seems very new still,” said Thalita Teixeira Padilla
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Thalita Teixeira Padilla being transferred from Boston Medical Center to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Last fall, Thalita Teixeira Padilla was struck by lightning while walking her dog. After more than a year spent in hospitals, she is getting back to her life — and feels like she’s been “born again.”
Padilla — who was struck on a Boston beach, thrown into the air and aided by a nurse living nearby on Sept. 9, 2023 — was discharged from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital on Thursday, Sept. 19, according to ABC 10 .
Formerly a nurse herself, Padilla was first admitted to Boston Medical Center in critical condition — she suffered burns, nerve damage and an injury to her spinal cord — and spent several weeks on the “edge of life,” a hospital official previously told ABC 10…