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For six years, Baltazar Carrillo, 64, suffered from agonizing pain in his arms and legs without rhyme or reason.

鈥淸There was] no pill that could make my pain go away,鈥� Carrillo said.

Carrillo, of Sanford, enjoyed cutting his grass, traveling and helping his five grown children until the pain became insurmountable, 24 hours a day.

In April of 2019, Carrillo had spine surgery in his neck to try to correct the pain in his arms. But when he awoke from his surgery, Carrillo couldn鈥檛 move his left arm.

Carrillo broke down in tears in front of his daughter.

鈥淲hen I saw my arm, I was like, what am I going to do now?鈥� Carrillo said. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 have any hope.鈥�

For 15 days, Carrillo recovered in the hospital in hopes of regaining sensation. However, even after a second surgery and attempt to decompress the nerves in his neck, he did not regain movement. His neurosurgeon explained that he would send Carrillo to the best 鈥� 网红黑料 board-certified plastic surgeon Harvey Chim, M.D., FACS, who specializes in hand surgery and peripheral nerve surgery.

In October of 2019, Carrillo made the trip to Gainesville for his initial visit with Chim.

鈥淢y first impression [of Dr. Chim] was that he knew what he was doing. He asked me to move my hand, and I was able to feel it but it wasn鈥檛 moving,鈥� Carrillo said.

Carrillo suffered from a brachial plexus injury, brachial plexus being the group of nerves that branch out from the spinal cord in the neck and travel down the arm. These nerves also control movement and sensation in the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand. For Carrillo, he experienced paralysis of the shoulder and elbow.

Chim assessed Carrillo鈥檚 arm stimulation by performing an electromyogram, a procedure that examines the function of nerves supplying different muscles, to detect nerve damage.

Chim decided that nerve transfer surgery would give Carrillo the best chance at regaining movement in the arm. The surgery would take healthy, functioning expendable nerves and redirect them to restore function to injured nerves. In Carrillo鈥檚 case, Chim would transfer a nerve branch to his left triceps to the axillary nerve in order to restore shoulder function. Chim would also transfer part of the ulnar nerve, which supplies hand function, to the nerve to the biceps in order to restore flexing of the elbow. Carrillo鈥檚 surgery took place in December of 2019.

Three months after the surgery, Carrillo started to regain movement in his shoulder and, a little more than one year later, has recovered full function in his shoulder and strong flexing of his elbow. He can move his hand, bend his wrist and carry items.

鈥淚鈥檓 just so happy with Dr. Chim鈥檚 surgery,鈥� Carrillo said. 鈥淭hank you so much to God and Dr. Chim.鈥�