Bent Audio Jack Input

Hello. I must admit I feel like the biggest idiot for having done this...but here goes. This summer I've been tree planting, and so I've been listening to music. I had a nice protective case for my ipod, and on the way out I grabbed a pair of crappy old headphones my dad used to use and listened to my ipod all day, left ear-bud in...then when I got back into my car and tried to play my ipod I found that only music came out of the left speaker. It was at this point I looked at the headphones jack to realize that it was bent at the bottom ever so slightly...just enough to bend one of the contact points....sigh. I really don't want to send my ipod into tech just for this...does anyone have any idea's on what to do?