IMessage waiting for activation

For the past 5 hours I've been trying to get iMessage on my iphone 4s to start working again. It keeps saying it's waiting for activation and when I click send&receive my number is grey and won't check. Here's the catch, my mom just got an iphone as well and her number was under the same apple ID, so her number shows up as black with a check next to it as well as the email.

She has her own apple ID now, but that's not changing anything on my iPhone and neither of us can activate imessage for some reason. I've tried multiple times shutting off imessage, the network reset, and turning my phone on and off and nothing has helped. If anyone knows what to do, please help me As soon as possible. Going to the apple store is out of the question right now for reasons, so I really need an answer on how I can fix this alone.

How do I delete the second number off iMessage and stop my number from showing up as grey and uncheckable?

Imessage is acting stupid today for everyone i know with an iPhone so don't worry about it. You can always call customer service about it.

Both Apple's iMessage and Facetime are down for some users.

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