Healed

All but healed. Even the teeth are nearly functional. Still not up to more than the softest of front teeth biting, but no longer feeling awful. The retainer working better than expected. The lip still has quite the scar, palpable, somewhat numb, but much improved. A tiny, barely discernible, visible scar, but the feel matters and the look does not. Function back to just-fine-thank-you-very-much. Two months from a through and through split, teeth banged, face stunned. Faces heal so well, so quickly, though it feels at point of injury as though it never will.

Everything heals, just as it irrevocably changes. Never the same, but a new normal, a different function.