Feeling the fear

[Mo1959]

I've been riding with a non-union fractured clavicle for about 8 years now (too close to the end to plate and if I fell on it with it plated there I would be in schtuck) The only thing it affects is lifting weight over my head (and it aches like a begger in the cold but the pain-meds for my broken femur knock that on the head )

Although my plate seems to have kept mine together and I barely get much more than the odd twinge, I do still worry about landing on it again. I have these horrible visions of the plate detaching from the bone and ending up sticking somewhere it shouldn't!

 

[raleighnut]

Although my plate seems to have kept mine together and I barely get much more than the odd twinge, I do still worry about landing on it again. I have these horrible visions of the plate detaching from the bone and ending up sticking somewhere it shouldn't!

Pretty much what the Surgeon said to me.

 

[anothersam]

I just googled clavicle X-rays and realised most of them are worse than mine.

Dr Google diagnoses on a curve. After my MRI I immediately had a look at other people's brains. Although I was assured mine was fine, or at least human, I detected anomalies the neurologist had missed

The folder has been banished to the shed until it sees fit to apologise.

(that's a Brompton, but a Mezzo should also fit)