3rd Metacarpal head fracture! Will I be ok without surgery? Please help take a look, need 2nd opinion!?

So on March 15th I was playing basketball and i ran into this guy who was standing in the court and smashed my hand between his chest and mine. I got xrays and saw a hand specialist who looked at my xray and said

I needed surgery, but than I told him I don t have insurance because I m a full time college student and don t work, he then had my remove my splint, and felt my hand for tenderness and mobility. He was surprised that I could open my hand almost all the way. I wouldn t be able to press it flat on a table(palms down) but I could get close like 75 or 80 degrees(90 degrees being flat). He then said that limit term we want functionality as the goal so he told me as a professional he could see my hand being ok without surgery possibly. I don t have money for the surgery and am just wondering if anyone has had this sort of injury or knows about bones or injuries that with time I could just rehab with hand exercises to get full mobility in my hand as in opening it all the way. I haven t tried making a fist, he didn t ask me to try, with it being so swollen. I ve included a picture of my 3rd metacarpal fracture. You can see the right side has slid down a little so it s not round and smooth at the top like the others. I m hoping my body just calcifies that top part to be round again.

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