Hey Rob, please send your x-rays. I like to see x-rays with hardware and yours should be spectacular with the numerous screws and such. I am very sorry to hear about your trials and tribulations with the collar bone, and I think many of us are bearing the unfortunate scars of surgery, myself included.

As for the chicken feet, I saw many chicken feet served in Asia but never had the nerve to eat one myself. I can't think of any part of a chicken less appetizing than its feet.

Here's a little story for you. One of my colleagues was traveling in China and he was told by one of his friends that whenever you're there, just watch your host and do exactly what he does. So a plate of little cooked birds was served and he saw his host pop one in his mouth and start chewing so he did the same. He bit down on it and was unnerved to find lots of little bones crunching. He continued to chew up the little bird and then about a minute later observed his host spitting out a perfectly clean set of bird bones on to a plate. He realized that it was much too late for him to separate the bones from the meat because he had been munching on them for too long so he continued to chew until the bones were small enough to swallow! I've always been amazed at how the people in China can pop something into their mouths and carefully separate that which can be eaten from that which cannot.