Congrats on having the surgery in your rear view mirror SteinBizzle. Life improves once you make it out of ICU. With respect to your nerve bundle, it is early days yet, hopefully you will see some improvement in the next few days as inflammation settles down. Apparently this can take a few days. My nerve bundle was also damaged in surgery and I did end up needing a permanent pacemaker. The decision wasn’t made until the morning of day 6, hopefully your issue will have resolved by then. I did struggle to deal with the need for a pacer, but you should know that if it comes to pass, the internal pacer feels WAY better than the external pacing. Well the heart block from surgery is a serious issue, it is apparently quite easy to treat with a pacer. They can pace your ventricles to your own rhythm from your atria. That is actually working well for me and the pacemaker surgery is very minor compared to what you have been through.
Wishing you the best of luck, keep us posted.