touque wrote:JohnyRico wrote:got socked in the face/chin area at Ball Hockey.
Define 'socked'.
Like he got hit with a ball/stick/other piece of equipment or he got punched in his glass jaw and went down like a German should?
Heh ... there was NO going down or anything. We were playing for the ball in the corner and when I tried to get around him his elbow connected with my jaw. It was accidential but at the time it didnt even phase me. Saturday things were stiffening up a bit but their was no swelling etc. By Saturday night I thought I was getting a headache but it turned out it was just the size of my face growing.
Well by Monday night I had to go get this thing checked out. I was worried the hit could have either cracked my jaw or broken the inside of my tooth causing an abcess. This was neither ... it was a hemotoma - a collection of blood pooling in the location of my cheek bone. They lanced it and I kept bleeding so it is a good chance it is arterial in that this thing is still open on the blood vessel/artery side of the wound. So basically I have to take pills until my body does a couple of different things.
1) Re-absorb it in a few days which is the likeliest of the solutions.
2) Become infected and likley giving me that abcess tooth I was worried about which would be rare but could happen.
3) Not every quit pooling which would require surgery to go in and fix the artery/blood vessle rupture depending where it might be which is extremely rare but I was made aware of it as a possible issue.
So in other words .. no I wont be making an appearance for wings. I cant drink beer and the food I eat has to be prechewed right now anyways. Oh well ... time for some well soaked rice crispies!!
mmmm ... lunch.
