Week 7 - NEW YEARS EVE
This is a brief New Year’s Eve post wishing everyone a successful and healthy 2005!
Since Monday the paralysis in my face has begun to ‘thaw’. My eyelid only seems to get ‘frozen’ when I am tired in the evening now. My mouth has also thawed and I can just about manage an even smile (if I try hard). This is really great! The Bell’s Palsy websites I checked out suggested it could take 3 months, sometimes 6 months for the paralysis to clear. I can soon escape the nightly requirement to tape my eyes shut.
Carol has been giving me Reiki treatments - I have left each one with a sense of well-being and confidence that my body is healing itself in conjunction with the pegylated interferon and ribavirin.
BUT, the nagging nerves!!! The inflamed nerve causes a pain behind my ear. This is not too difficult to bear but over hours the muscles in my neck nearby begin to spasm. I just caught myself - about to descend into a minute description of my pain and suffering. Suffice to say, after a fortnight of this particular pain (which Paracetomol won’t touch) I am ready to move on.
Carol has offered to give me a reflexology treatment which could help ease the pain. I don’t really like having my feet touched but I am sufficiently keen to move on I will risk my discomfort if it will help.
Despite the pain (and the complaining) I went to work this week. I am aware how tired it has all made me.
So Carol and I are seeing in the New year quietly at home - if I stay awake that long!