update time, and its good news!
I've been in to see the consultant today (10/2/2011) and he said my bone looks healed enough to start removing the frame,
here is the 'healed enough' bone,
we start by taking out the three struts that run between the bottom two rings and the rest, they stay in place but with the nuts loose so that if I mange to break the bone in the next week they can fasten it back up. if every thing is well for the first week they will start removing the struts from around the original break at the top and let me have another week with the frame loose but intact,
then if everything goes well the lot can come off, :D
not long now!