Oh please.
And you honestly believe that just because Shel or you or I
can't see the remaining 69990 it is safe to assume that those are not okay?
Please, please. Without having a solid evidence, we can assume anything and everything under the sun until cows come home.
What is really interesting, however, is how Shel saw 10 and for those 10 out of 10, NONE had nerve damage.
I am not saying, oh no, by no means, that nerve damage never occurs.
(also, what matters here is important to differentiate between DAMAGE and STIMULATION)
It does happen (the damage), but IMO this occurrence is not that VERY common at all
and certainly going as far as to claim one loses the use of the entire arm
due to CI surgery is so farfetched is a fairly tale.
What is more common, is CI may yes, AFFECT some facial nerves - which is NOT the same as outright nerve DAMAGE.
The nerve may twitch due to overstimulating, but it will stop after proper mapping.
It is quite the same as attaching electrodes of some electrical contraption
to your bare skin and then increase the current
to make your muscles twitch.
The higher the current the bigger the twitch - BUT, once you remove electrodes, the twitch is gone.
Remember those facial wrinkle zappers?
here's an eye twitch:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izlsGSO3KZE]Wrinkle Zapper Part 2 - YouTube[/ame]
"Damage" ? Hardly.
So, if I can't say for sure out of these 6990 all 100% people are okay,
or how many are and how many are not, and in what way,
likewise, let's not get carried away with this anti-CI propaganda also,
and trumpet left and right "yes, if your foot drags behind you
and you have incurable chronic diarrhea - it's CI nerve damage", okay?
Fuzzy
