Diary of a woman going through Bell’s Palsy

Bell’s Palsy, a condition ;  a form of facial paralysis resulting from a dysfunction of the cranial nerve VII (the facial nerve) causing an inability to control facial muscles on the affected side.

Never in my dreams did I think, I would ever contract condition so rare but yet so scary. For a moment there I thought that I had a stroke, waking up and realizing that one side of my face is just not working anymore.

The symptoms were so weird, it started on a Friday afternoon, after finishing my meal with my Friend at Cafe 45, we had prawns and calamari for lunch and I can remember that and I drank Cream Soda. I could taste that I couldn’t taste the cool drink properly, it tasted so weird, sort of bitter, the closet thing I could describe it to is poison. I didn’t take it too seriously…