There is noway to predict how much individual patients will recover.

From my own experience, I must say that I'm really amazed by the brain's capacity for neuroplasticity. I have regained things (like some sense of hot and cold in my hands), not because my brain healed, in the sense that a broken leg heals, but because less damaged areas of my brain have learned to perform this function.

No matter what anyone tells you about "windows of recovery," NEVER stop working at cognitive rehab. The brain in amazing.

Is what I can do now the same as before my MVA? No - but it's a heck of a lot more than I could do when I was pulled out of the wreck. I can even drive - nobody thought that would EVER happen.

Hope, believe, strive!