Day 10: High Voltage

...ok maybe it wasn't a high voltage. Actually it was only a 9-Volts battery that the speech therapist used to stimulate my nerves today. This tool was apply multiple pulsating elector 'shocks' to my face. As you can see there was lots of gel used to do this. It was pretty cool. There were some points during this process that hurt slightly and others I could feel the nerves up into my scalp. When she went around my lips it almost hurt my teeth some. She said it gets the fillings but I don't have fillings in my front teeth, haha. As she did it she could see my face twitching. She also gave me a face massage which was really nice. I think this lasted for like 30 minutes. It may have been shorter than that, who knows. We went through the exercises and she could see a little dimple as I smiled. So whoot for progress. I'm enjoying the therapy so we'll see how I progress after next week's sessions.

 

After speech therapy I went onto the eye doctor's office... they actually check for bell's palsy. Not really sure how well, yes I am. Ok, so check it, first they checked my reading in both eyes (you know reading the letters on the walls). They checked the prescription in my glasses which is "very low", then the doctor came in and put them really bright light in my eyes. REALLY BRIGHT! Then they dilated my eyes. I don't think I've ever had them dilated before. The doctor then came back and shined another really bright light in my eyes. She didn't find anything related to the bells palsy and said she thinks I'll have a good recovery (since she thinks I'm doing so well already). Now, I don't know about you but I see this every day and I am not really seeing where she can say, "you're doing so well! But maybe it's just me. Anyhoo, so she did see a small scar on my eye so they had to take a picture of it. I thought the light she was shining in my eye earlier was bright. No sir. This one was eve brighter, NOT to mention she had to take a picture meaning, FLASH! Not only that she didn't get it the first time so had to take another one. Yeah uh no, lol. The 'scar' magnified on the screen it looks HUGE but that's magnified 1000x. So yeah, she gave me a solution to use four times a day and use the ointment at night. *check* I have a follow-up appointment in a couple months.

Boy oh boy, those dilated eyes are no joke. They did tell me I could drive, and that things closer would be more difficult to see. Ya think?! I drove with no problem. I worked for the rest of the day with those stylish shades on TRYING to see the PC. Didn't work out so well but I made it. I was told it could take up to six hours for them to return to normal and indeed the left side did. The right pupil is still slightly larger than the left, almost 10 hours later. Funny though, I haven't had to use any lubricant today, but my eye is watery

SP yeah, no video tonight either. I'm kinda tired. Some pain in my face but less than before. Massage in the morning. Speech therapy on Monday morning.