If you read my blog regularly you will know I broke my collarbone in July 2011. I had a titanium plate put in a couple of weeks later and from that point healing was quick and I was able to use my arm again almost fully within weeks.
During the week before first meeting my surgeon/consultant, I was contemplating whether or not it should be plated. Should I leave it to possibly heal itself overlapped with a large lump and with one shoulder shorter than the other, or should I have it plated, with screws showing and potential permanent loss of feeling where the insicion is made.......?! Touch decision. Except the consultant made it for me. It was a bad enough break for him to say 'this needs fixing'. So stress over, at least I didn't have to think about it anymore. The scar is clean and straight. Looks pretty good actually.
However, I'm not left without problems... I have had it in now almost 5 months and the injury is still giving me some trouble. The bone has healed no problem, and I can ride a bike to the standard I could before. But the skin around my shoulder still has no feeling and the plate itself aches. Could possibly be something to do with the cold or that my skin feels like it should feel something but can't...? Either way, I don’t really fancy doing the Madison at the Velodrome any time soon. The madison training sessions were the only one’s I rarely missed and always enjoyed. Nor am I 100% committed to racing. Although perhaps this is something I will have to get used to again...
Anyone else out there had similar problems? Please let me know... any help/advice would be much appreciated.
Nicola x
