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The doc yesterday essentially told me I'd been fobbed off, and that it would've had to have been very best-case scenario for it to have been better in time for my trip at the beginning of August. He was a total ballbag who seemed to think it was my fault... "well, if you will go cycling in London...". Twat.
Later on last night I was chatting to Digger at LMNH, who said that in Europe they put such injuries in cast or pin them back together from the off. He and his Polish pal (who's broken both before) agreed that we're hopeless at dealing with collarbone injuries in this country. It's basically a case of 'wait-and-see'.
Furthermore, the doc said that if I fell on it with any force at all it would pop open, possibly through my skin. For the record, the fracture doctor and the specialist both assured me that it would never re-break it such circumstances but instead bent or splinter a bit (he compared it to a wet stick). Basically no one really knows what it'll do and no one is taking it seriously because it's not a spine or a tumour or whatever. Absolute cunts.