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Well, yesterday was the day from heck. I slipped getting off the schoolbus in the morning, and there's a lot of bike racks right where the busses let off. Now, by bike racks, I don't mean the traditional kind. I mean twin rows of three inch thick steel bars, a couple feet apart, the bottom one a couple feet off the ground. I landed between them, on my jaw, and because mouth wounds take forfreakingever to clot, I spent the next hour and a half in the nurse's office, spitting blood into a sink, whild they got my Mom on the phone and waited for my stepdad to come pick me up. Got some X-Rays done last night, and the nurse I talked to afterwards said it was a bruised jaw, and no fractures. Oh how wrong she was. Doctor looked at the X-Rays TODAY, found at least one fracture on my right lower jaw. So, now I have to see a specialist, and might be graduating this year with my jaw wired shut in some kind of headgear. Oh, joy. And, freaking OW!

I doubt you'll have to have your jaw wired shut or wear headgear, especially if it's only a fracture. But I could be wrong.
Yes; drink milk; lots of milk. In fact, go find some bone meal and put it in your milk. You'll be healed in minutes (scarred for life by the terrible taste, maybe, but your jaw'll be fine).
You should sue the school...

OWECH
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Definitely drink the milk...and take calcium supplements...

...but AVOID bone meal - it is meant for animals, and often has an unusually high lead content...
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First...No, just no. Second, I'd sooner sue the A-hole that put the bike racks right next to where the busses unload the students than I'd sue the school. That'd just be silly, sueing the school instead of the idiot responsible. Oh wait, the idiot responsible is me, for being in a hurry when I had no reason to be in a hurry, for not watching my step knowing that, given that we were doing the bi-yearly emergency exit drill, the step down would be a foot and a half longer than normal, and knowing that the ground was wet and still not watching my step. What I'm more concerned about is, how could anyone with medical training, be they doctor, nurse, or mere doctor's assistant, miss three gosh darn fractures? At least, 24 hours later, a doctor that gave a rat's...butt...and knew what he was looking at caught them before I caused even more damage.

Oh mah gawd, a teenager just took responsibility for his own actions. Someone call the president! xP

Did it not hurt like crap to spit with a fractured jaw? o_O

Yeah, that's a better idea. I was only kidding about bone meal. Don't try it. (I've only ever seen it used as some sort of plant food... by my grandma).
I was also only joking about the suing. Forums convey tone very poorly.

I do honestly hope you heal up fast and don't have to get any wires or headgear though. (Three fractures? Ouch. Just ouch.)

Ouch, I know what your going through, Hope you dont have to use head gear, but look at it this way, if you do use head gear, you can make it look like Keith's helmet =^_^=

Doctors= Cure and save you from death using correct assumptions and professional diagnoses

Field Medic= School nurse= Make you feel better by making hasty assumptions... then feebly try to save you while you die using meager knowledge.

Actually, my nurse was quite compitent. She insisted that I go straight to the doctor when my stepdad picked me up, and she, like my mom, was right.

And, DK, I wasn't so much spitting, as I was sipping from a cup of water and using that to help get the blood out...And, yes, a good deal of spitting. What hurts more is swallowing, and moving my jaw, which spitting doesn't require much, and eating effing anything, and moving any part of my body too fast. And riding the bus this morning and afternoon. And not even eating half a meal yesterday. A tenth of a subway sandwich (don't say it), torn into small pieces, which I somehow wrangled into my mouth, mashed against the roof of my mouth with my tongue, and swallowed mostly whole. Oh, and some rice from a teriaki place. Came with small chicken and thin beef, all in pieces small enough to swallow. Finished that when I got home from school today. Considered making a subway sandwich smoothie using a blender, but it'd been in the fridge overnight, and would've broken the blades...And now I'm rambling. Because it's late, and I'm tired. I'd better go to sleep. Peace out, peeps.

Woot, now you have an excuse to blend all your food :P chicken smoothie, steak smoothie, BLT smoothie =^_^=

Update
Well, had an appointment with the specialist today. I have, from left lower to right lower, a break, another break, and a fracture. So, tomorrow morning, I get my jaw wired shut, and start eating through a straw.

I can relate my stupid face got underneath 125 of falling weight(my like i dropped it on my face), i had a contussion like 3 weeks ago, it happenned like 5 weeks ago, but i didn't break anything, I had my teeth messed up till like 4 weeks ago when i pushed then in place.

Wow...broken jaw...wired shut...OWECH
I hope your pain meds are decent, at least...
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I had some like that a few years ago. If they're anything alike, you're in for some weird next few weeks. Also, don't count on legally being able to take them at school. The nurse told me, even though it was a prescription medicine, that the pills I had were too strong, and would interfere with my learning. Just don't make a big deal about having them, and no one will really care.