Clavicle Error - Broken Collarbone

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.

That totally concurs with what I've been told / have discovered. Basically anywhere other than the UK they cut you open within a few days, plate you up and you're good to go in a month. To some extent the 'wait and see' approach is valid as, for example, in my case, healing was relatively swift for the type of break and I'd rather not be sliceed open. But what it creates is massive uncertainty for most patients (myself included).

And unless you see a sympathetic specialist most doctors couldn't care less about a mere collar bone break. I feel for you dude.

I also hate the number of people who take this as clear evidence that cycling in London is a stupid thing to do. Cock off the lot of you!