Anatomical Weirdness

I have another thing to list to my list of "Sara's Anatomical Weirdness" - my collar bones are unique.

A couple of weeks ago, Himself bought me a gift certificate for a massage from one of his co-workers (if you live in The Frontier and need a great massage, let me know - she was F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C).

Part of the way through my upper pectoral massage (yes, slightly weird, but made so much difference I went an entire week with no upper back pain), she stopped and said, "huh." When I asked what discover she had made she said, "Your collar bones are v-shaped."

I've taken anatomy, and I still didn't realize that v-shaped collar bones were not, in fact, anatomically normal. I responded with, "Huh? Aren't they supposed to be that way?" She assured me that they were not and, in fact, were probably contributing to much of my upper back pain, which seems to get worse the older I get (not to be confused with my chronic lower back pain some doctors are attributing to poor spinal alignment and arthritis).

In the several weeks since, I have made an unofficial study of collar bones. Indeed, mine are not straight across, like everyone else's I've seen recently. It kind of makes me wonder if I'm just some kind of freak of nature or if it's a genetic thing - but how do you work, "so what do [i]your[/i] collar bones look like" into a normal conversation without seeming at least slightly odd?

Just another thing to add to my misplaced ovary, my congenitally deformed sinus cavities, the missing liver enzyme and other oddities I call normal.