HOUSTON, TX — Inside the data-driven environment of an Intensive Care Unit, medical monitors and scans often determine a patient’s outlook. For weeks, those tests delivered a grim conclusion about Hunter Alexander, indicating that the nerve damage he suffered appeared to be permanent.
Leading vascular and neurological surgeons reportedly agreed that recovery of movement in his upper extremities was unlikely. After multiple surgeries and a severe arterial rupture earlier in the week, the injuries left his hands—once strong and steady—without movement.
