Broken collarbone

[Nuke]

Well the mountain bike demon finally got the better of me last Sunday. I was riding my mountain bike in the mountains and took a spill breaking my collarbone into 3 pieces. It was a fluke that I broke it. Normally you hit and roll on something like this but I hit just right and slid only on my shoulder for 10 feet before I rolled. All the energy went into my collarbone. I was scheduled to leave for basic June 6th on an 18X contract but looks like I'm going to have to postpone that until I recover.

I'm going to look at this as an opportunity to work on land navigation (no pack of coarse), do some reading, and work on my running once I can. I would appreciate any suggestions on other workouts one can do with a broken collarbone. For the first two weeks the doc said to not do anything at all so my body works on healing my bones and not everything else. I guess that makes sense but I’m already going crazy. LOL

How much time do you guys think is a reasonable time to recover from this? My doc said I should set my ship date to 6 months from now. That seemed a little long myself. Does that seem right to you guys?