Ok...so putting my medical hat on...
Occasionally patients do have queried serious spinal injuries that do turn out to be spinal compressions due to muscular swelling etc which, when the swelling has had time to reduce, turn out to be not as serious as initially expected...that said it would take considerably more time ordinarily than it did in this case...
However, I have learnt to ignore most of Summer Bay's medical history... otherwise I'd have driven my hubby mad with the well thats not rights...