Jeff, thanks for adding lots more detail to my initial post. My scar tissue kept re-appearing for at least 2 years after the accident, so yes, recovery is a long term process that you have to keep at.
If you broke a heap of ribs at your age, you should watch out of the development of scar tissue in your chest around the broken ribs impeding your breathing. At about your age I fell and ended up with 10 fractures across ribs 2 - 6 plus a punctured lung. The whole right side of my chest started...