Saw a hand specialist yesterday. He says I have a minimal nerve damage to the median nerve, and that when a sensory nerve is damaged, partially cut, and then heals, it‘s not like plugging an electrical cord into a receptacle, that the circuit is not instantaneously restored to the effected area , that from the damaged area, the circuit must be reestablished at the rate of 1mm a month from the injury to the effected fingers. And that with this kind of injury, my body has greater ability to fix this than a surgeon does and to wait and see how it goes.
He also said damage to the Ulnar nerve (funny bone nerve) that controls movement vs sensory would be much more serious and would require immediate attention, because a broken connection there not restored could cause permanent impairment.
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