Broken collar bone

Well I guess one of us was bound to injure ourselves this season... of course it had to be me with a broken left collar bone! Happened on the 16th Feb skiing down a gentle blue run into Tignes Val Claret (near the bottom of Henri for those that have a piste map to hand). I have had quite a few spills whilst skiing this season but usually just get up, dust the snow off & keep going. Dave says "if you don't fall over, you're not trying hard enough" so I guess it's all in the name of progress. That said, Dave reckons he's only fallen over twice this season... although that's probably more of an indication of just how much effort he's been putting into skiing!

Straight away I could tell this fall was a bit worse as there was limited movement in my left arm and my shoulder was screaming. Luckily there was a bus back to Val d'Isere within half an hour, and Paul & Irene were there to help me down to Tignes Le Lac in time to catch it. As you can see, the xray shows my collar bone pretty well snapped (and it was protruding but at least not through the skin). Treatment is a fairly restrictive arm/shoulder brace that keeps my arms back and shoulders as straight as possible for 4 weeks while the bone heals...1 week & 4 days to go... I'd be lying if I said I wasn't counting ;-)

I think the top xray is first off then the bottom one is after they pushed the bone back down
(a drama in it's own right involving gas and an injection)