Manny. Love your sence of humor!
Ok let me try. First of all you havent really defined what type of lip injury you have or what the severity is.
This happened to me this summer. On a gig someone accidently bumped into the bell of my horn and the mouthpiece smashed into my lip, and my lip began to bleed and swell. Sounds worse than it was...anyway after applying an icepac and not playing for about 4 days, my lip healed just fine. Another 2 days of serious etudes and I was ready for my next gig.
There was no permanent damage, even though I thought there was going to be when the injury occured. Lucky for me when I got hurt it was in the last 30 minutes of my Saturday night gig so I didnt lose any income. Needless to say I keep my distance from others when playing now
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Martin Committee Trumpet, T3467RE
Holton Heim # 2 Mouthpiece
Rick AKA Trumpet Man