I would totally understand if a person develop a fear of ants after suffering a situation like the one your friend experienced. I know a guy who went through something similar but instead of ants it was a hornet and it got trapped inside his sheets.
And the smart prosthetic look amazing, it must be cool for those people to be able to feel like before. We are getting closer to complete synthetic bodies.
Hornet? Mehn! He must have been through hell.
Yeah buddy; we're getting closer to a synthetic body and ultimately blurring out the line separating biology and technology