Day 1: What's That Twitch?

Let me preface this by saying I really don't know much about anything, lol, but something weird is happening here. Follow me as I tell you about my battle with bells Palsy in a series of posts titled, Freeze Frame! Read About It

Picture it, Sicily.... *snicker* As I lay in bed this morning contemplating rolling over to look at the clock to see how much longer I could stay in bed, I felt a weird twitch in my lip. Almost to the post of pulling. Surely there is noting yanking at my lip in my bed. If so, we've got much bigger problems. Almost instantly I notice that my right eye isn't closing as I blink. Again, weird! So I rolled over and called my mom.
Me: Mama, have you ever had this happen when you blink but your eye doesn't close?
Ma: Well, *picturing her doing it* Yeah I guess so. I'm blinking now and my eye isn't closing
Me: Nah ma, your eyes have to be closing. This is odd.

After going back and forth a few times about this I decided to get up and prepare for work. Off to the facilities. Nothing looks out of place. I'm touching my face and I still feel it. I'm smiling and it's still there so I proceed to brushing my teeth. As I lean over to spit, wooooooooooooomp, my lip goes to the left. You know I'm looking in the mirror like who what right now? I immediately call my mama back like, "yeah, something is definitely wrong!" I explain to her what's happening attempt to call the doctor - who's not open yet. By this point I'm working myself into a tizzy because I'm scared, not sure what is going on. I let me manager know what's going on and wait for a chance to speak to the doctor AND get an appointment.

So I'm in the doctor's office seeing the nurse practitioner at 10:10 (I got in a little earlier) and I'm giving her the details of what has happened. I let her know that (a) I was previously treated for a sinus infection and (b) the day prior I was having pains in the back of my head and above my eye. She looks, does a few tests, comes to a conclusion but confirms with the Dr what she'd already known. Yeah that was kinda sad. She had to give me a hug because I was not feeling it. I actually sat in the parking lot of the doctor's office and cried out that one eye for an hour, lol.

An hour later, I have beginning stages of Bells Palsy could be caused by sinus infection which lead to an inflammation of the facial nerve. It hadn't worsened at that point, however, she said tomorrow it may really be crooked if it manifests. Yay me, lol. The doctor said they treat Bell Palsy aggressively and would get the ball rolling on follow-up visits such as MRI, Occupational, Speech Therapy, and Eye Doctor. I ended up not getting the visit with the eye doctor but was instructed to use Visine to keep my eye from drying out. I was still having pain from the previous day so I went home.

They called in the Rx (or so I thought) and are scheduled the appointment with the Speech Therapist. I had the MRI down around lunch time today. So It's now Wednesday evening and my prescriptions never made it to the pharmacy but I did pick up the Visine which I've heard mixed things about. I'm going to have used this whole bottle by the end of the week because my eye keeps burning (which means its parched, lol).

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