It seems that I'm getting back a little bit of the use of my hand everday.  For example, I can now type with all of my fingers except my pinky on my left hand, without being in a lot of pain.  My pinky still only has very limited movement.  On the brighter side, the pain has gotten a lot better.  I think I only took 2 1/2 pain pills yesterday, half a pill at a time.  That's a huge improvement.