The peripheral nervous system can regrow nerve tissue but only if it has an intact pathway. So when they sew on a finger, if they can repair the myelin sheath, new nerves will grow down the old conduit at a rate of about an inch a month.
So they sew your finger on and you have to wait a few weeks to see if you're going to get any feeling back. That waiting would drive me nuts.
The peripheral nervous system can regrow nerve tissue but only if it has an intact pathway. So when they sew on a finger, if they can repair the myelin sheath, new nerves will grow down the old conduit at a rate of about an inch a month.
So they sew your finger on and you have to wait a few weeks to see if you're going to get any feeling back. That waiting would drive me nuts.