Hello I hope you will post on the forum. You will get more of a response there. Sorry you have so much to deal with. To answer the question on exercise it is still being studied and some neuros believe light to moderate exercise is ok others say only range of motion. I think everyone agrees overstressing damaged muscles is bad. We can not repair as we could before and could indeed cause further damage. I can tell this myself when I inadvertently do too much. My neuro who is quite liberal says any exercise that takes longer than 1 hour to fully recover from was too much I chose spinning with light resistance as a good exercise when this started for me