Bell's Palsy Who?

Well, I've been thinking a lot on whether to post or not about what happened to me or where was I the past four to five weeks ago, cos I've been very quiet and didnt even logged in. well, maybe I could share my sad sorry story...

It happened in the second week of January during the time where I guessed everybody was happy, excited and overjoyed celebrating these festive seasons with their beloved family and loved ones. Well, not for me, you see, in the midst of all these happiness, suddenly I felt the world came crashing down my feet.

My little princess caught the stomach flu virus, she vomitted throughout the night although after being prescribed by the GP, who gave us a few medications for her. But it didnt stop. The next morning and the rest of the afternoon suddenly she was fine and started jumping around.

So I thought that the situation was under control. Oh boy, was I wrong. At about ten, my hubby realised that she wasnt herself, she had a crooked smile to her face. True enuff, the right side of her face went numb, she couldnt feel a thing. I happened not to notice that earlier as she was busy playing with her sibling and I was busy with their youngest darling baby. How, how could I not notice this earlier? Bad momma, bad bad momma? We started to panick.

The GP's already closed and our next choice would be to send her to the hospital. But I had this feeling of hesitant to send her there as I dont want her to be a guinea pig. So we pray hard that nothing would happen throughout the night. We couldnt sleep a wink. My little princess on the other hand slept like a baby as she was not aware of what was going on.

The next morning the first thing we did was to check on her face again, still no response. Luckily the GP opened on a Sunday. We had to send her back to the same GP you see, cos he prescribed her the medicine so he would know.

Well, when we reached there...Doc told us nothing to worry, its not serious (huh? he must be kidding or wat?)... She developed some kind of a facial nerve problem or something which obviously i can tell that without having a Phd myself...and she cant even gimme her usual smile but the doctor told me just that?

Luckily hubby was quick to calm me down and assured me to trust and leave it to the GP, bcos of course they (Doc) knew better than we do. Later we found out that our princess was diagnosed with bell's palsy (mild facial nerve disorder). I actually asked the doc again to confirm what's the actual name and the goodness spelling of the god damn it virus. The first thing in mind was to check in the internet in order to know more about it.

I was told by Doc and with the info from the internet about the virus...Its likely going to take her two and a half weeks to fully recover...Oh my Lord...God! Why does it take so long to cure? Eventhough it is not a life threatening virus or sickness but cant it be cured faster and earlier than that?

Then I must spend the rest of the 2 and half weeks with hell's worries at the back of my head?. Is she going recover fully or can it happen again? Even the GP cant give me a complete definite answer.

Eventually she recovered fully...about less than two weeks. Thanks to Almighty God. So here i would like to share my experience with other people and to all the moms out there...

One day if you see any of ur child having difficulty to close or blink their eyes or they simply cant give you their sweet loving smile or you notice something amiss to their face.. maybe you should seriously consider to look on that matter without delay (especially when they start vomitting).

Who knows maybe bell's palsy might have just struck on them. We pray to God...may that NEVER happen ! To Hub...Thank you very much...and I love you more, yes I do!