Nerves can recover
Hi KL,
I'm so sorry to hear about your short-term outcome. If they docs are optimistic, I'd go with them. If nerves are damaged, but not severed, they usually do recover, slowly. Our son was in an accident that rendered his left arm paralysed due to massive insult to the brachial plexus. In fact we were given a very gloomy prognosis of one third chance of recovery to 65% of function. All nerves to the arm and shoulder muscles were damaged.
Nevertheless he did recover- almost completely. It took about nine months, but we began to see signs of recovery after about 6 weeks. I hope this gives you some optimism for your own recovery.
I sometimes think the folks who go blindly into these things with no research are better off than those of us who work so hard to make the 'right decision' and then get blindsided by some surprising hiccup.
I have thought of you often and will continue to wish for a full recovery.
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