TW, CW: Post contains images that may be disturbing to some readers of a dog bite laceration to the face, and the following sutured wound as well as progress photos of the healing process. **UPDATED 12/24/2020, please scroll down to the end for a link to a support group on Facebook I have created. You are NOT alone in this experience.**
The dinner party was wrapping up, I had gathered my things together in a nice pile, the containers I’d brought my famous chocolate chip cookies in, now all eaten, and we were all getting ready to go. I decided to sit down on the ground by the kitchen table to pet the dog one more time. He was eye level with me, and as my hand petted his head, he began to growl and before I could pull away, he had lunged at my face and then quickly ran away. I clutched my lower face in my hands, huddled over, uttering, “Ow! Ow, this really hurts…” A horrified friend sitting at the table looked over and told me, “You’re bleeding…”
I stumbled to my feet, still holding my hands over my face, and ran to the bathroom. When I parted my hands, I was confronted with a bloody sight, blood was dripping from my lip down covering my entire chin and splattering into the sink. “NO! No no no!” I turned on the faucet and splashed my chin with water, my hands trembling, and as some of the blood was washed away the sight became even more unbearable. I could see a long strip of skin gone on the side of my lip down to the chin, and the worst part, the center of my lower lip down, open, gaping, dark, blood…
