Ha! I bit off my tongue from falling a pretty good height. My knee came up and hit my chin, forcibly closing my mouth on my screaming face.
When I could finally move again (was paralyzed for a bit), and got to the hospital, they just told me to keep my mouth shut. Apparently, your tongue is just a muscle, so it will reattach itself.
It was a shitty few weeks, but at least I didn’t break any bones or land on my head.
Ouch! I did something similar snowboarding in my early 20s. Landed a badly timed jump on to hard, flat snow and slammed my knee into my chin. Thankfully did not catch my tongue, but shattered several teeth!
I remember wondering how I’d ended up with a mouthful of sand and grit. It wasn’t sand.
Yes, my stepmother did that when she was young. Not sure what they did for it but when I met her she had a weird flap of tongue that could flip forward. That part never reattached. It was disturbing and fascinating to 10 year old me.
I couldn’t move my tongue for a few days (to let it reattach) then it was painful for a few more days, then some of it turned white and rotted off over a few weeks. But other than some gnarly teeth shaped scars, it works and functions like a normal tongue after 20 years.
Carrying around a note explaining why I couldn’t talk was also entertaining.
