The dinner came to an end and the Alaskan king crab legs settled nicely in my stomach. Though as I looked up from across the table my friend Carrie said to me, “You are definitely going to have to blog about this!”
One week earlier…
It was my first unofficial Mother’s Day, so we thought it would nice to have some friends over and sit out by the fire pit. So far the weekend had gone relatively normal, I was still recovering from my ear infection and I had begun to lose all feeling in my tongue, but I thought that it was all related. After saying goodbye to our friends Josh and I came inside and started talking, when all of a sudden Josh asked why I wasn’t blinking my left eye. I laughed and then he began to notice my lip drooping. Immediately panic ran through me and I became aware that my eye really wasn’t shutting. Josh grabbed the keys and we got in the car headed to the ER.
At the ER they were able to see me right away because of the pregnancy and they started running multiple tests. After a full night at the hospital we finally saw the doctor, who greeted us with, “Have you heard of Bell’s Palsy?” I never understand why they ask these types of questions, my face is paralyzed the eye is exhausted from being open for hours now. Next he began to go over each symptom I had and explained how it is related to Bell’s Palsy, which is when the nerves on one side of your face suddenly paralyze for typically around 3-6 weeks. They gave me a goodie bag full of meds to start taking and an eye patch and sent me off on my way.
It took me a few days to adjust to life as a pirate, but mostly just from all the medications and constant eye drops, along with taping my eye shut at night.
I was driving to work the other morning just going over in my head all the things that I have encountered these last 5 and half months of pregnancy when I only began to feel a little pity for myself when it quickly stopped. A sneeze came over me and as my body tensed up I realized that I was able to sneeze with my left eye open…pretty cool.
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