You know, when Lee was a "rookie" at the academy, studing to become a genin, he was told by the other kids that he would never become a ninja. They laughed and teased him. He almost gave up, but with training and "Hard Work" he surpassed them all. It was Gai-sensi that told him he was a genuis of hard work. Maybe with more hard work he can prove the doctors wrong and fully recover. Maybe not. I will be cheering him on regardless. If he doesn't recover, then we will have lost one of the elites.