Right Brachial Plexus for me, but zero functionality from the shoulder down.
Mine was a motorcycle accident in '97. No fused vertebrae though!
I also ruptured/tore the Brachial artery and almost lost the arm, but was lucky enough to have a great surgeon who grafted in a vein taken from my left thigh and was successful. I have to be careful around extreme heat and cold though, due to slightly less blood flow and only having nerve sensation in the top half of my arm. I have had some pretty bad burns and cuts that I didn't even know happened until hours later. At the time I was living in Colorado Springs and the hospital shared the same property with the US Olympic Training Center, so the hospital was staffed by some very good doctors.
I'm just glad that I don't have to rely on pain meds and don't sit around all day looking for hand-outs like some would in this type of situation. The first question I asked my Orthopedic surgeon was "when will I ski again?", he said as far as my back was concerned I would be fine and I was skiing 9 months later(only because there was not snow sooner). I later skied with a friend I made who is a bilateral paraplegic since age 8 1/2 and teaches disabled skiing. He has been on the US Disabled Ski Team, national wheelchair basketball teams, built race cars and Jeeps, and has a beautiful wife and daughter. He was a big inspiration to me and my recovery. I spent a few days skiing with him at work and came to learn that my orthopedic surgeon's son was a client of the disabled ski and snowboard school where. His name was also Eric and was injured in car fire, small world!
I have built my Jeep and several Mazda race cars since that day in 1999 as well as fixed cars for friends, and am thankful to be alive. I have learned a lot about myself and that it is far better to give than receive. And vise grips make a great second hand when working on cars.
Enough about me, time to replace the rear main seal on my Jeep!