She's so lucky they didn't wire her jaw shut!
Our youngest son was hit (by a drunk driver). He and his friend who was driving were wearing seat belts, but the dashboard buckled into a point and smashed the entire left side of our son's face.
His jaw was broken in three places. Twice on one side and one bad break on the other side.
His facial injuries were so severe that they had to wait for swelling to go down for about 3 days before they could re-set jaw. He has metal plates permanently and had to have his jaw wired for almost 3 months. It was a long time to have your jaws wired.
I would've gone insane the entire time, but he took it pretty darn good. He was glad to be alive. A person in the other vehicle didn't make it.
Liquid diet and he was always on the skinny side, so he got really thin.
Your neighbor is so lucky to NOT have the wires. They gave us wire cutters at the hospital just in case G-D forbid, we needed to cut them open in an emergency.
His teeth which were aligned perfectly before, now look like the NY skyline on the bottom row, but he didn't lose any teeth, thankfully. We offered to get him braces (he was in college at the time and never needed them before, but the ordeal was a bit much and he always declined.
What a freak accident your neighbor had!
I've heard of people having broken necks and not needing anything more than a neck brace and my poor dad of course had to have a *halo* screwed into his scull for an unbelievably long amount of time. Ugh.
