Sorry to hear about your accident
I had a broken scaphoid when I was younger,
Fell over playing football, twisting my wrist back, obviously hurt a fair bit, but wrist still seemed reasonably mobile, and after a couple of days the pain had pretty much subsided, so assumed i’d just sprained it or something, but after that, used to get aches sometimes when at work or doing my weight training, plus a little bit of restriction on the movement
Any way about 3 years later I was poodling home from work on me bike, twat in a car coming in opposite direction decides to turn right no indicator or nothing, straight in front of me, and bike gets embedded into the side. :crying:
Fortunately I was doing less than 30, which is a bit unusual for me, but after getting pain in my wrist, goes to hospital and said bone was broken, but turns out it was already broken from the football accident before :w00t: , and I had been going round with a broken wrist for 3 years, but doctors said this is quite a common occurance, being such a small bone it doesn’t affect the mobility too much
Had to have a small operation to hold the bone together, then it took about 4 months to heal
Trouble is it’s such a small bone, and it’s the small bones that take longer to heal, because there’s less calcification to rebuild the the join.
Someone said earlier that they had the same injury and were ok after a week,
That bone don’t heal in a week, although it is possible to use it broken, as I did, but won’t heal properly if not given the chance, and you’ll have a permanent ache and possible problems later in life.
So make sure you let it heal, and go for a compensation claim, I got £3000, and that was 30 years ago, so worth a lot more now, go to a claims specialist and they’ll help you sort it, i’ve got a couple of numbers, one in East London and one in Essex that i’ve used more recently that are good, if that’s of any use to you. 
Gary
