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Fat Lip

Boat life has been interesting.
A few days ago, Ty and I were in the dingy headed for the boat. I was pumping up the dingy, it tends to deflate all the time… At least its a workout!

So, Im pumping up the dingy and Ty starts the motor, pulls back and then all I see is white light. Then, blood. I spit over the side of the dingy and then run my tongue over my teeth. All of them are still there! Thank goodness. But theres a lot of blood. Ty pulls out his phone to look at it and as soon as he looks at it, he says, “oh shit” along with a horrified face. Then Im freaking out but say “Its not that bad!” 

We finish our ride to the boat with a bandana over my bottom lip and Ty doesn't stop saying sorry. “Shit happens” I say.

At the boat, I look in the mirror and realize that it does look pretty bad. Its a gash in my lip and its bleeding. We clean it out (it stings) and I take a piece of tape to close the gap. The thing that im worried about is heading to work the next day and everyone asking about the gash in my lip. I can also barely close my mouth… I wish I had taken a picture of it the first day, it was gnarly. 

The next morning, The tape held the gash together enough for it to heal pretty good the next day, but eating proved pretty difficult.

Eating at work was pretty entraining. I poured the soup into my mouth and half of it leaked out because closing my mouth was pretty hard. haha


This morning, it was a little pussy, but the gash that was on the inside of my mouth is completely healed! The human body is a pretty cool thing.

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