ooooohhhh! There's not much I can say since I've never really broken something, except OUCH!

My mother broke her clavicle as an adult, and I remember her being in a LOT of pain, chomping down painkillers like they were candy and basically sitting semi-paralyzed in a chair doing crosswords til it healed. I've also noticed that even not breaking anything - spills and tumbles I've taken since about the age of 30 just seem to HURT so much more. Either my pain threshold is lower or I just heal slower and less efficiently. I fell off a horse every other week when I was a teenager, and I was up bouncing off the walls the day after.

Such a shame this had to happen when you really had made an effort to be careful. Still - the final result has got to be better because of you taking care. Keep us posted!