I stopped writing about my Bell’s Palsy on Day 27. Why? Because it was depressing me. I would say I have had a 98% recovery. Most of that within 20 days of Day 27.
Every now and then it will hit me but not bad. I’ll feel my face sag on the left. My left eye will experience a bit of twitching and somtimes I can’t get it to close all the way on it’s own. During times of high stress the symptoms are stronger.
I was hoping I could write about a day of great recovery but that is not the case. The pain has spread back down my neck and shoulder and I have no new movement to report. I’m pretty much exhausted at the moment as well. So goes life.
I’ve tried to avoid taking pain pills for the headache. Yes it hurts, but I’m just odd. I like to try to get by on what I can. Today I gave in and took a pain killer at work. It didn’t get rid of the headache but dulled it enough for me to get through the issues at hand.
No new or improved movement. Still have a painful headache.
Tomorrow I return to work. In a way I’m glad because I’ve felt pretty useless just “resting.” In a way I’m not glad because I worry stress may make things worse. Only time will tell.
I have more movement on the left side of the face. Not much, but I’ll take what I can get. I keep worrying that I won’t regain any more movement. Yeah, I’m a worrier.
I’m sick of the pain. Really sick of it. The damn headache won’t go away and the pain in the neck/shoulder has flared up.
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