Clavicle Error - Broken Collarbone

So just over a fortnight since I had my plate installed. The healing is going well... started doing a bit more serious movement with my arm yesterday, and once or twice got this burning / tearing sensation around my shoulder, which was a (not so) gentle reminder to take it nice and slow with the exercise. Maybe that pain is from the sharp end of bone still sticking into the flesh?

Here's some before and after pics. In the first one, you can see the little chunk thats snapped off and drifted a good deal away from the bone. This was why they said that surgery was necessary this time - there was too much space between the pieces, and the location of the break near the end of the bone also usually results in poor healing if left alone.

So I was asking the surgeon lots about clavicle surgery and bones growing back together. I feel something of an expert at this stage, given my own history and the amount of information I've picked up off this thread (I'll give DIY surgery a go, if anyone here feels they need it... just give me a few quid for some ether and a trip to B&Q). I was interested in why they'd still left a gap between the bones, despite having cut me open and affixed the plate. He said that if they stick the bone completely back together, there's no flow of blood and tissue where the break is - so the bone doesnt really grow back together. Its a question of getting a decent balance of gap and position. You can see in the picture below that there's still a gap left between the pieces, despite a plate being inserted.

So that'll be there for the next four or five months, and then I'll be up for surgery again to get it yanked out. Next fracture clinic visit is a month from now.