I did break my face. Simple bicycle accident. No I wasn't drunk, as some have implied. Eventually I broke my sinus, and orbital bone. The sinus was the bad part. They had to operate and put in a titanium plate, which they did in a vaguely horrifying procedure. Fortunately they knocked me out. They went in through my mouth, and I woke up much the worse for wear, with blood in disturbing places, but I have improved relatively quickly since then. My cheek is still "asleep" in the way that it is after a visit to the dentist. It makes me want to be more careful in future. (although I wasn't being particularly unsafe at the time of the accident) Incidentally, the Belgian health system did really well, in contrast to our experience of two summers ago.
