Bear in mind, doctors will always make it sound worse than it is, and give you the worst prognosis possible. They’d rather have you think it will never heal and then have it heal fully, than have you come back and sue them because they told you it would be great and it ended up not healing well. The first makes a happy customer, the second makes a customer who assumes somebody must have screwed something up, and who goes on to get a lawyer and sue.
Good luck with the recovery.
Under, you are correct.