Update, and the surgeon is giving me a probable June date to remove the plate, which is a little later than I would have liked. I want it out -- I am still in pain when I lift the arm too far or too fast, and I can only move the arm up on the diagonal rather than straight up. But most things are getting easier, and managed a 27km bike ride yesterday, when Toronto temperatures jumped to 16C (60F) -- totally unprecedented for February. It is a hook plate that curves round the clavicle. Apparently these are more prone to cause problems, although they are better with the somewhat dramatic sort of break I had. Or something like that.

Now I have to decide whether to have the plate taken out of the elbow at the same time. My feeling is to let that one be -- surely it would be easier to recover from a single operation, and why do more slicing than you have to?