Keep fighting it! The license is peanuts in comparaision
I had the op 8:30am last Wednesday, woke up in ITU around 4pm, moved to HDU the following afternoon, then spent the entire next day learning how to compensate for my balance when standing and learning to walk again.
My current speed is around 20 metres per minute, and I can't go out unaccompanied for shopping or whatever because I will fail at some point.
On the plus side, my surgeon told me I'm winning on the things they look at in people like me (age, mental fitness, and no signs of the last 3 infections me at the moment).
He removed the stasis complete and that's on it's way for a biopsy to ID it correctly, so current news is that I am essentially back in the same boat as you guys........no death date but could get run over by a bus tomorrow.
Already got my itinery for doing the family things that I should have done years ago instead of worrying if I could afford a bill or not, so I'm doing the Eagles for a bit.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfeNhwnO8hwPS
Still where you saw me last, and this last one caused me to genuinely give up cold turkey on the nicotine in 4 days flat (obviously because I was shagged, but it's worked and I can feel the benefit of that already).