What do you mean I have a tail?

Actual x-ray of me, obviously right after the accident.

Can you spot the problem? ;-)

I have a tail. So do you. Apparently everyone does and most don't even know it. Might make a good bar bet.

Seems your spinal cord only goes down to the upper part of your lumbar spine (your spine has 4 parts, cervical, thoracic, lumbar and finally sacral parts, moving from top to bottom). At the bottom of the spinal cord is the cauda equina, which as all of you know is Latin for "horse's tail". This is a bundle of nerves that branches out to control the lower parts of your body, things like legs, bowel and bladder, and of course your 'fun zone'.

This is the part of me that got smacked hardest apparently, at least from a central nervous system perspective, and why I am paralyzed. My horse's tail is unhappy. Maybe a good combing would help...

So far from everything the docs are seeing, none of the nerves are cut, nor is the cord cut. It seems the nerves are just very unhappy that they got smacked around and squished and so they have decided to go on strike. The big question is how long they plan on doing this and if there is anything I can do to get them back to work.

There is a lot of swelling still in the spinal cord and the tail section, and this swelling needs to subside before any type of recovery can start to make itself apparent. I've been doing research to find out what if anything can be done to help this along, as you can imagine there are a lot of folks and places saying they can help initiate and/or accelerate recovery but not a lot of data substantiating the claims. I'll keep looking into it but for now it's still mostly about waiting for the swelling to go down and for my wounds to finish healing.

If there is anything you guys would like me to talk about please feel free to let me know, I'm just kinda of winging it here, hope it's interesting.