Even their medicine has side-effects. I'll take what I can get.

[Nonchalantly.

.... though he should probably also mention then that-]

But I think... the spinal cord manages all movement. So I...

[He hesitates, because it's not like him to be negative. But when it comes to serious things, he really is just thorough.]

... How do you repair something that's been cut? Do you just put it back together? I don't know how my medicine does it but it does -- so I don't think the spinal cord is self-healing. It doesn't... grow back.

[And that stresses him out a bit.]

If you go in to fix it, what are the chances that you'll just mess it up more?

[Not moving at all - not being able to touch the people close to him - he can't stand the thought.]