I think, because you were so young, survived, etc. that the "compensation" was truly your young body wholly "fixing" what might not have been fixable at an older age. The rest, what you observe now, is like a congenital condition. It's kind of like if you broke your arm, that would heal and that bone be stronger and you wouldn't know/care that you broke your arm.

My niece had her father holding her as a young child and he fell and her leg got trapped between his and broke it but it took a couple days before they noticed that, whereas before she could pull herself up in her crib, now she could not. She didn't cry, wasn't in pain, etc., it's just that really really young bones, tissues, etc. are still forming and "plastic" in many senses. She wore a cast for awhile but now, 40-some years later, it might as well have not happened at all.

No way to tell, before you were walking, talking, "thinking", etc. what you "could" have done differently? Our brains rewire all the time and fix things that way; being left-handed (as I am) is actually a difference in chemicals and conditions (stress) in the mother's body before the child is born, a "defect" of sorts but. . . who cares 18 years later?

Yes, I'll may die before other, right-handed people because the world is set up for the 90% of people who are right-handed but that's just something I'm born with. In your case, your father was not a fit father, in my case my mother was ill and dying when I was in utero. I wish I had known my mother, you wish you knew what you were born with versus what you know and imagine now of your physical strengths and weaknesses. No way to know those things now I don't think.