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The Good, the Bad, and "Oh! Sparkly Bits!"

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As the title suggests I have good and bad news.. Firstly though, thank you for the kind thoughts and comments on Tuscany town and my accident, it's really nice to have such lovely readers of my blog out there! I will start with the bad news because it leads to good news...kind of... In my last post I reported my wee bike accident, well 4 weeks on it was worse than the orthopaedic surgeon thought, it's now classified as a type 5 injury rather than a type 3 dislocation of the AC joint. Considering it's quite a severe injury, it hasn't been that painful, and I have quite good range of motion in that shoulder (I put it down to good fitness and I regularly stretch anyway)  So (deep breath...) I now need surgery to relocate the collarbone down to where it should be, which involves keyhole surgery and a rubber band, so to speak...well not quite a rubber band, but they attach a band or loop to my collarbone and hook it around the corocoid process (which is a sticky out