Good luck on your on-going healing. One thing I didn't see anybody mention was the need to be aware of a possible Traumatic Brain Injury. Based on my own experiences, I find very few ER or other doctors take them into account when somebody has the sort of injury you went through. Be aware of short term memory loss, slight speech problems, reacting to things more emotionally than you usually do, dyslexia, the inability to think clearly in noisy environments and loss of fine motor skills (such as playing a musical instrument). 10 years after breaking my neck in a car wreck, and after the destruction of a marriage and career, I stumbled onto a TV show about the issues I was going through....and until then never realized I had a problem. I am stuck with something called Aphasia. Most people who have had a major stroke and end up being affected by it have this condition, but it can also be caused by a TBI. Here's hoping you don't have any issues like these- but better to know about them than to suffer through how I found out about them for sure!