Just went through the latter. Would have been so much nicer if there was a way to just regrow it. The attendant swelling in the knee causes the quad to shut dow

Just went through the latter. Would have been so much nicer if there was a way to just regrow it. The attendant swelling in the knee causes the quad to shut down, and atrophy before you get to reactivating it, which precipitates a year-long process of physical therapy before you've got a full stable and strong leg again.