Sorry Saluki that is just horrible, mine seems to be a very simple fracture in the wrist and hand. Does not seem to bother me so far.
For a broken bone to heal, I think you're probably looking at 6 weeks in a cast (or whatever they told you) and then another month or so of introduction of movement before you'd want to consider putting your weight on it for a short-medium distance ride.
I think that will be the case for me, I have already started on the turbo doing a Sufferfest training plan. Upper back muscles are the only real bother.
As to publicity, only one reporter was interested but he wanted a whole life story and photos, I hate photos of myself at the best of times so declined.
The police tell me the CCTV in the pedestrian underpass before where I was atacked is a 1 second snap every minute and nothing was caught on it, the cctv further on is non-recording , so useless really.