That’s the fantastic summary of how nerves heal by @1speechpick
@Ddmarie also keep in mind, while the discomfort, pain, anxiety increases - your chances of dying, getting long-term damage, or other dangerous/harmful long-term side effects are very very low compared to what they were at the time you were in the operating room. As I told someone, given that I was knocked out and unconscious for more than two hours, had four sharp knife wounds in my neck, two pieces of skull broken off and taken out, lots of nerves and tissue moved here and there, drugged with fentanyl and other substances, electro-shocked with nerve monitoring tools, and put back together afterwards - I am feeling damn good!