
He receives the file in the mail when he's at his wit's end and seeks out the patient, Jonathan Pangborn, in the city, finding the man playing basketball. Strange demands the man's file he can't believe it's true. During rehabilitation, he's told that there was a former patient, at one time, who recovered from a severe factory accident and, after a year, overcame his muscle pain to be able to walk again. He makes a recovery, personally, but his hands have to undergo numerous extra surgeries, many of which are experimental and at his discretion and expense. That being said, the crash caused severe nerve damage to his hands and the resulting surgery meant that 11 steel pins had to be placed into his bones to keep the limbs functioning.

Strange is brought to the hospital and despite the horrible accident he survives.
