About

On April 5, 2009, I fractured my jaw in a bicycle accident. In the days that followed, I looked online for accounts of people who had recovered from similar injuries, but I didn’t find much. While I would hope that my jaw would be the last one to be broken, this is of course not a realistic hope, and this blog aims to be a resource for people with similar injuries. I’ve learned quite a bit from my experiences, and I’m sure that I will continue to learn more, so I hope to pass my newfound knowledge along to those that need it. Many posts don’t contain information that will be useful to others, but I have included them in the interest of presenting a more complete narrative.

I didn’t get around to starting this blog until almost two weeks after my accident, which left me with almost two weeks of back posts to write. Some of the posts dated in those first two weeks were written as late as the end of May, based on my detailed mental notes.

As for the name of the blog, it’s a play on the phrase “shock and awe“, a military doctrine for which I have no fondness. The blog was previously known as “jawbroken”, which I intended it as an adjective meaning “having a broken jaw”, just as “heartbroken” describes one with a (figuratively) broken heart.

See also my introductory post.