The damaged nerve is waking up again and blowing up like an active volcano with pain so intense that literally nothing brings it below an 8 out of 10, even near overdose levels. Nerve pain is THE worst.

BUT the upside is that the atrophied muscles dont have dead nerve roots, they have angry, but alive ones that are now waking and roaring. That means I CAN earn back those atrophied muscles and be able to control my left leg again.

Working through that pain is the bugaboo that will make this take so long and hurt so much, but it is at least DOable.