Iโm taking another blogging break.
I know I havenโt really returned from the last one fully yet, but there is a different reason for this break. I have only gone and developed Bellโs palsy, and the whole right side of my face is paralysed.
I have a gorgeous smile on the left side of my mouth, and nothing on the other. I can now blink with only one eye. Flare one nostril. Pick up different sounds with my right ear. And I have a gorgeously smooth forehead โ on the right side.
I canโt close my right eye, so I have to sleep with an eye mask on, and use eye drops to stop my eye drying out. Iโm taking steroid medication for the muscle loss.
I have to get as much rest as I can, although I am still working and concentrating on computer screens, so I have to try to get a balance between being on screen and off, which is why Iโm taking time away from my own computer.
Hopefully, this wonโt be for too long, but we shall see. I canโt in all honesty stay away from Blogland for that long, so Iโll undoubtedly be popping in and out as I love reading your posts, even if I do so only as a lurker. Iโll probably be liking more and commenting less, but again we shall see there as well.
Itโs only my face thatโs affected, and the rest of me feels fine, and Iโm handling what has happened OK. I can even see the comical side of itโฆ especially when I laugh. When I laugh, it sets others laughing, which makes me laugh more, so they laugh more โ and so on. In the end, I have to say โDonโt make me laughโฆ you wonโt like me when I laugh.โ And we laugh.
Itโs a reminder reallyโฆ anything can happen at any time, which makes it all the more important to enjoy the moments before that โanythingโ happens. And really, more than ever, to keep Feeling Good.
I was going to switch the comments off for this post, but Iโve decided to leave them on. If you do leave a comment, I will try to reply as soon as I canโฆ and this goes for all of the other comments on the other posts youโve left recently that Iโve failed to reply to.
I shall apologise for this delay, and advise that normal service will be resumed in due course.
Keep smiling!
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