Exactly what my wife did only with chicken, if you don't reattach the nerves right away they can't do it, good thing you went to the emergency room. When my wife went to the hospital when it happened they stitched it up and said that's all they can do, the next day she said she couldn't move her thumb so I brought her to a hand doctor the next morning and they did the surgery the next day. Hope everything goes well for you.