Ball growing after surgery to fix cut tendon and nerve

Hello, I am a 21 years old French female, about 1m55-57 and around 50-55 kg.

Last year while I was on holidays on the canary Island, I fell and cut my right hand on a piece of glass. After going to a very average hospital where they told me my nerve was cut and I would require surgery, I decided to go back to the south of France where I live and where I felt more comfortable getting my surgery.

So by the time I got to the France, in a hand specialised hospital, they told me my tendon was also cut. When I got the surgery my tendon had fell in my wrist, which made the surgery a bit more complicated. I was planning on moving to the Netherlands that month so I still did, tough it meant I had to change the person who was doing my physiotherapy to a new one in Belgium. He felt like my thumb had already too many lissions and that I would have to force and suffer a lot if I did not want surgery. After 6 months of physiotherapy EVERYDAY (but on weekends) he really believed I should get surgery to cut the lissions of the tendon tough my surgeon was really against this idea. I stopped going to the physiotherapy around this time as it was really affecting me mentally and that I wanted to find a normal life again.

From then my finger is doing much better, I use my hand like I used too even tough I still cannot fold my thumb, I saw two surgeon in France who told me that they were very pleased with the results. My sensibility is 100% accurate and I can do pretty much everything with my hand.

The problem came around 6 months ago, there was this tiny ball starting to grow right where my tendon was cut and fixed. I started to massage the ball very hard like my Belgium physiotherapist told me to do, and I was crying of pain and the ball would just get bigger and bigger everyday. Now the ball is big and it is becoming more and more annoying on my daily life, every time i pick up something I have an electrical shock going in my fingers and wrist, and my finger get tired very quickly when I write and it hurts where the ball is.

The two surgeon I saw think it comes from the surgical wire that did not disintegrate itself properly. After an exam it turn out to be the case but both my surgeons are not necessarily recommending to get rid of the ball as it could fragilise the tendon and make my finger worse.

I was wondering how could the finger could get worse since it is not moving and I have only gained like 0.8% of mobility.

But then maybe they mean it more like the tendon will be painful when I move it? or do they mean it might crack???

I am just so confused about this because I also cannot find anything on internet about the risks of doing this surgery.

And also the ball is very annoying, and preventing me from working longer, or carrying stuff. So I feel like I am still young and don't really see myself living like that for another 50 years or more. But then if I could lose all of what I have worked for, for the past 12 months I am not sure if the risk is worthy...

If anyone could tell me more about the risks, and has anyone got what I did and did the surgery?

What would you recommend is the safest option?

Thank you, and sorry if it is not well explained but all of my documents are in French and I have translated the best I could.

There are picture of my hand after surgery, and the ball now as well as the exam results

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