I presume what happened is that you had two disc prolapses and that these were pressing on the spinal cord and possibly the nerve root(s) at the lower cervical area.

While the surgeon's answer was blunt it probably sums it up. The nerve damage would have occurred a very long way from the target organs the nerves supply. - that is the hand and foot. Generally after three months you has some idea of how it is going to turn out. At the three month point the nerves fibres that were only bruised (neuropraxia) and not destroyed will have come back on board and should be working.

Where the nerve fibres are destroyed there is the possibility of these fibres regrowing from where damage occurred in the neck, all the way down to target organs. However, this is really a theoretical recovery; nerve cells regrow at a very slow rate (works out at roughly 1 mm per day) and there is absolutely no guarantee that they will regrow in the direction where you want them to. There is no evidence that I know of that taking any vitamin or other substance really improves this outcome

There is one other area of interest to you. While you may not be able to do anything for the nerve cells that are damaged, the cells that are intact maybe able, to some extent to take over the job of the cells that are destroyed. This process is called neuroplasticity and occurs at many parts of the nervous system. What drives neuroplasticity in the direction you want is extensive practice of the tasks you are having problems with - so lots of strengthening, and practicing of the the motor skills of which you are having difficulties. Sensory training for the areas where the sensation has been affected can help. Neuroplasticity can occur at any time but it is probably optimal within the first few weeks/months of the injury.