Mike,hope you recover as quickly as possible and that you have no complications!
I broke my neck in 1996,c6-c7,and still have some numbness in a few fingers on my left hand.I was told at the hospital that if I had moved just a hair more I would have been totaly paralized(sp).The pins in my neck let me know that they're there in bad weather,but that's about it.Three months after the accident I was back to work and six months after the accident I was up to 50' off the ground helping a crane set the crossarms on ski lift towers.