From the Extremeskins.com thread, a guy who claims to be a doctor gives his two cents on the possibilities of the injury (he sounds like he knows his stuff)
"I am a doctor (for real). I have some experience in trauma.
The femoral arter is one of the major branches off of the descending aorta. It travels in close proximity in the groin to both the femoral vein, and the femoral nerve (which innervates, through various branches, most of the lower leg and thigh). I would estimate it carries 60+% of the oxygenated blood to the lower extemity.
If perfusion is cut off for a prolonged period of time, the tissue dependant on it for its oxygen and nutrients will start to die. Brain tissue in as little as 3 minutes, muscle in several hours. Neuronal tissue doesn't have the same amount of reserve for anaerobic respiration that say muscle has..
That is the concern. IF he lost enough blood to compromise the perfusion to his brain, he will suffer unpredictable brain damage. Hopefully it isn't severe or widespread. As for his leg, if they reestablished flow before death of large amounts of tissue, with rehab he could be able to regain function. (there is an entity called reperfusion injury, but I won't go into that here) Some nerve function could also come back, because outside of the central nervous system, nerves are able to regenerate.
As for his career, its hard to say with what little we are hearing. I have to say it doesn't look good. Of course, with God all things are possible. I have personally seen someone with a GSW to the brain which stroked out a large portion, whom we expected to die on the OR table, leave the hospital to rehab, able to talk."
Also, Comcast is reporting that Taylor picked up a machete when he heard noise in the house before going to investigate.
