wth is wrong with my face?!... Bells Palsy

Wednesday night (8/4/11) andrew i went bowling with chris, we went to the mall to walk around a little and then hit up chick fil a for a late dinner as i was actually hungry again. dropped off andrews friend we came home and ate our late dinner watched some tv and headed to bed.

we were in bed for about 15 mins and noticed that my face was feeling tingly. I could feel my eyebrows getting numb, my nose felt numb and even my cheek felt numb, then it went away. I thought maybe i laid down to quickly or was laying down wrong so we went to sleep..

Thursday morning (8/5/11) came, took andrew to work and came back home. I got some breakfast and was like damn my eye feels heavy.. not really thinking much of it i laid down for some extra sleep before work and fell asleep. well getting up before work i really realized that something was wrong with my face. my eye would barely open now and my right cheek was completely numb.. and even talking felt funny. now im worried and calling my doctor. Called my pcm, gave her the symptoms and was told to call my obgyn asap and get an appointment that it sounded like bells palsy.. i said okay and wondered wth it was she said. I had to go ahead and head to work so by now im at work and look like ive been in a fight.


I finally got a hold of my obgyn and got an appointment finally at 3:00. waiting in the waiting room felt like the longest wait in my life. I was soo tired andrew wouldnt let me fall asleep and all i could do was worry that omg ive had a stroke.. hows the baby? is the baby okay? all these questions my brain wouldnt quit. We finally got called back and we took some questions, the doctor did a sensory test and we figured out that the right side of my face had little to no feeling. it is indeed Bells Palsy. I have to take some medications, prednisone and aclyovir(?) but we were told that it pretty much goes away all the way.

Another thing we got to hear thursday was the baby's heartbeat (-: !! 164, perfectly fine and on the sonogram the baby kicked and was moving around.. it was so cool.. i can not wait for you to get here little bean!! i love you already!