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I went over my handle bars and shattered my collarbone a few months ago. My x-ray was also pretty gruesome and I was sent away in a sling and told to wait it out. The upshot of a really nasty break is it'll heal fairly quickly due to lot of surface area and blood to knit it all back together.
My advice is to really keep up with the physio exercises that the fracture clinic will give you when you go in to have it checked, they are pretty simple and although they'll be murder at first you'll soon begin to see a bit of progress. Also, although my girlfriend was adament that I wasn't going to do anything at all, I forced myself to start doing a few things around the house as soon as I felt able and pushed myself a bit more every few days.
I was back at work and on my bike after five or six weeks, but had to really watch what I was lifting for a couple more months afterward.