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Post Fiend
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From: Joppa, Maryland
Just found our surgeon's can't fix my good friend's arm. Iraq veteran, got in a motorcycle accident a while back and they finally got him into surgery to try to replace the nerves in his arm, been in since 9am.. and they just came out and said they can't do anything for him 
FWAK! argh
FWAK! argh
i ain't rite
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
i would not be too overly concerned about it Paul.
with the way medical science is advancing these days, i can see them being able to repair the damage within 10 years.
the big thing is to have faith that one day he will regain full use of the arm and hand.
a good friend was paralyzed in a industrial accident 15 years ago when he was knocked off a building and suffered spinal cord shock. he refused to accept the fact that he would never walk again.
2 weeks ago he called me at 10 pm rambling incoherently and crying. i rushed over there to find him and his wife crying in the living room.
by then he was calmed down enough to explain he woke up and his foot itched. he then realized he had regained feeling in his left leg.
he has a long way to go, but he is convinced someday he will be able to walk into the doctors office and tell him to eff off.
with the way medical science is advancing these days, i can see them being able to repair the damage within 10 years.
the big thing is to have faith that one day he will regain full use of the arm and hand.
a good friend was paralyzed in a industrial accident 15 years ago when he was knocked off a building and suffered spinal cord shock. he refused to accept the fact that he would never walk again.
2 weeks ago he called me at 10 pm rambling incoherently and crying. i rushed over there to find him and his wife crying in the living room.
by then he was calmed down enough to explain he woke up and his foot itched. he then realized he had regained feeling in his left leg.
he has a long way to go, but he is convinced someday he will be able to walk into the doctors office and tell him to eff off.
Post Fiend
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From: Joppa, Maryland
He still has his arm right now, but he has no feeling or use of it except for extreme pain in his "hand" which is a phantom pain because he has no nerves connecting his hand to his central nervous system.Yes, Walter Reed. Pretty nuts going there and seeing all these kids hurt as bad as they are in their prime, for a whole lot of nothing
Postmaster
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From: The Wilderness
Paul, I understand where you are coming from, but having spent two years of my life there, I have personally seen lives saved and changed. There was a lot of good happening there, it is just too bad that it will never last. That is just human nature though, nothing we can do about that.
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Post Fiend
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From: Joppa, Maryland
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From: Sweet Home, OR
I got shot through the hand between my ring finger and middle finger bones, essentially (and luckily) just a flesh wound. The nerves were all wrecked on the left side of my middle finger and is mostly just numb on that side.
The surgeon who worked on it said I'd never get the feeling back but I've gotten at least half of it back over the last 15 years.
Obviously the "nerves can't grow back" statement you hear all of the time is wrong. And like others have said: micro-surgery, and just medicine in general, is makeing huge strides all of the time.
DON'T ANYBODY GIVE UP HOPE!
The surgeon who worked on it said I'd never get the feeling back but I've gotten at least half of it back over the last 15 years.
Obviously the "nerves can't grow back" statement you hear all of the time is wrong. And like others have said: micro-surgery, and just medicine in general, is makeing huge strides all of the time.
DON'T ANYBODY GIVE UP HOPE!