dd1, who is 18, 'fell' off a wall at the weekend and has broken her collarbone.
(Don't ask how she did it - but it gave the hospital staff much to grin about 
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Took her for a follow up appointment today and we saw the x-ray which was horrendous. The bone has literally snapped in two - one piece is sitting underneath the other and the two pieces overlap.
The doctor said that it might knit together, although if it does she will always have a bump where the top bone is sticking out, and because the bones are now overlapping, the knitted bone will be shorter than it was so her right shoulder will be a different shape to her left. She has been given a sling and told not to use her arm for 6 weeks.
She is to go back in 2 weeks for another x-ray and if the bone has not started to knit together she will need an op for it to be pinned.
But to my uneducated eye it looked like the two bones were barely touching, and is it even possible that they will knit together when they are overlapping instead of meeting end to end? Wouldn't it be better for them to operate now so that she doesn't have the lump of bone sticking out and would mean that both shoulders would be the same shape again? She can feel the lump of bone quite prominantly although the doctor said it doesn't look obvious. She is scared that the end bit of bone will pop right through her skin (yikes).
Any advice would be appreciated. 