First 2 weeks were brutal, until I was able to start using my left, but of course I'm right handed! Wife took an old spoon and bent it up so that I could at least eat without too much help. Was 50 weeks before I returned to working full time, though I had taken some computer courses both online and in a classroom during that time, I was not cleared to return to the work that I had been doing when the injury happened, so I went back to a previous career.