Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
I am sorry that I laughed at your description, Catrin!
For your information, lips heal really quickly. One time, my younger son slipped going up the back deck stairs, and his tooth went through his lower lip. I can't remember if they stitched it, after sitting in the ER for 3 hours, but I do remember that it was back to normal really quickly, in days. So you may not look so weird at the wedding.
I recommend copious glasses of wine to cure your pain. Seriously, I might avoid it for a day or two, but I think you'd be fine to have wine at the wedding.
That was supposed to cause a laugh It was the silliest most avoidable incident, so I have to laugh at it!

I had hoped stitches were avoidable, but I had a flap hanging from my lip...they thought it would heal much faster/better/less chance of infection with the stitches. It doesn't look bad today - that half of my lip is still swollen of course, but not too badly. The stitches are visible, but there isn't much in the way of pain though hot liquids gets my attention a bit. Eating isn't a problem, all in all, I got off quite lucky. My dentist tells me there is a chance that the two teeth at the point of impact could eventually die from the trauma - apparently it can take as much as a year to show up, but I am not going to worry about that.

Gotta laugh at stuff like this