i'm a medical anomaly

I went to visit my orthopedist today about the ruptured tendon in my finger. After taking off the splint and having me move my finger around a bunch he told me that my finger should not have healed. He explained that the delay between the injury and when I finally got it treated was so long that there was no way he thought that I would regain full motion with it. He came right out and said that when he had splinted it earlier, he thought that he was wasting his time and that the best case scenario was that I'd gain partial movement back. I became a show-and-tell piece and got paraded around the office to all the other doctors who also expressed their amazement.