I lost half of my tongue senses on a wisdom tooth extraction, it came back slowly during 3 month (its almost 100% back now) but it was terrifying the first week

I lost half of my tongue senses on a wisdom tooth extraction, it came back slowly during 3 month (its almost 100% back now) but it was terrifying the first week, I just kept thinking If I could live with that, a feeling of depression hit hard