The way this news is portrayed, as "heartwarming", does nobody favors. The autonomic dysreflexia, which people with tetraplegia are almost guaranteed to have,

The way this news is portrayed, as "heartwarming", does nobody favors. The autonomic dysreflexia, which people with tetraplegia are almost guaranteed to have, is literally one of the worst feelings in the world. I promise you, and I have experienced it firsthand. This cannot be resolved by the nerve transfer. It's not about worth or function-It's about perspective and how things have changed for them. That is what really matters. Nobody ever interviews the disabled people who participate in these sorts of things, and limitations are almost never honestly described in these circumstances. If you do not recognize the hypocrisy, then I do not know what to say. By just portraying it as heartwarming news, it does no favors for people who are actually going through things like this. By the way, it is not at all heartwarming for us. We also cannot make informed decisions off of articles like this, and it is harmful because the bar is either set really high for us--or really low. Our lives are tied more to "what we are worth" far more than the abled-bodied. I could go into it more but I don't want to write a really long winded post.