richardgrise at yahoo.com (Rich Grise) wrote in
news:3df9fd6c.0305141147.79d991ad at posting.google.com:
> According to what I know
> about it, a severed nerve "wants" to grow back, and one doctor
> told me that they do a millimeter a week.
This is true of peripheral nerves, but not of central nervous system
tissue. All the neurons involved in sight, including the retina, are
central nervous system cells, and will not repair themselves.
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Scott
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