Flashback - My Perma Fat Lip

Friday isn't over yet... it's time for a flashback.

As my face started to regain feeling this week, after my visit to the endodontist, the front of my bottom lip started to hurt.  As my face started to 'thaw' turns out a bunch of things started to hurt actually, but, that is for tomorrow's post. 

Anyway, it brought my attention to my bottom lip, which made me think of the little bump on there that has just become part of my look, part of my smile, me.

Here, this is what I'm talking about... a photo, from July 2007.  Can you see it? 

You may not be able to, but I can.

It is actually scar tissue that has remained from a nasty cut my lip got when my tooth sliced through it.

The story:

I'm pregnant with Q pretty early on, the first trimester and I'm sick.  Not pregnancy sick, sick while pregnant.

I hadn't gone to work, woke up late, got up to shower...

Of course I hadn't eaten yet and I don't know if I had overheated or what, but I do recall being mid-wash, with my soapy hands in my hair when I started feeling a little dizzy.

I, of course shook it off.  I get light headed all of the time, nothing new.

I blinked it off and started to rinse...

next thing I knew my face was on the floor and blood was streaming into the drain.

WHAT THE CRAP?

I had never fainted in my life before.  I don't think I have since.

It was such a crazy feeling to have no recollection of what had just happened, but my face hurt, my nose, my eyebrow, my lip hurt, my arm hurt!!!

Crazy!  I totally fainted in our shower, and apparently my face hit a few of the ledges that surrounded our corner shower, on my way down!

Of course I only took film pictures at that time, and I'm bewildered with all of my good record keeping at that time that I didn't have one photo of my face bashed in, but I got my face pretty good!

As I came to I remember feeling bewildered as I tried to figure out what was bleeding and where I was and what had just happened.  Both my nose and lip were bleeding.  I had a big bruise on my forehead and I can't remember what else.  I didn't finish rinsing my hair, I reached up and turned off the water and slithered out onto the bathroom floor.  I totally didn't even have energy to stand up!

I remember laying there for a few minutes, feeling totally alone! 

I wasn't terribly afraid, I'd be lying if I said I didn't wonder if my little fetus was doing ok, but I wasn't too scared.  I just felt alone.  I had no energy.  I was hurt.  I was alone!  So, I lay on the floor!

After resting there for a minute I got up carefully, put some clothes on, called Matt at work, then went back to bed.  I did call my doctor and he actually ran some tests, turns out I had anemia... thank you pregnancy! 

I was all better with some iron and totally didn't struggle with that with any of my other pregnancies. 

That was a moment in my life.  I forget so much, totally don't recall many great and awful things in my life, but the scar that event left behind reminds me of it.  Scars do that.

Anyway, so that is the story with the little bump on my lip, that makes one side a little more 'full' than the other, it's like a permanent collagen injection... maybe I should jam a tooth through the other side!  Who doesn't love full lips?