Bell's Palsy, Day 3

There haven't been any huge changes today, except that I've averted redness and discomfort in my right eye today. Funny what not having a hair in it and vents blowing on it will do for the comfort level. Last night we put in some all night moistening gel, taped the lid carefully with paper tape, then covered with an eyepatch. It was probably overkill, since the eye does close in sleep, but why take chances? It worked great, though I had "vaseline on the lens" effect for a while after waking up.

I forgot to mention that when I got home last night Spawn had sweetly created "Happy Home" signs and placed them all over the house. It was really cute, and really sweet of her.

I could swear last night at some point I twitched my nose. I don't think it was a dream, but I couldn't do it again this morning or today. Just recently, I was feigning surprise for Ellie and both my eyes opened wide and my eyebrows both went up. I couldn't repeat it, but it's a start. I'm confident I'm going to heal.

Today a huge portion of the stress I've been under has been calmed. First, my desk partner at work will be back tomorrow after 4 days out and her workload has slowed considerably. At my work, we have a designated person who covers your desk while you're out, and you cover his or hers while he or she is out. That doesn't mean you do all their work, but rather coordinate the effort of covering the desk. Because of a potential big project, I'd been trying to keep as much of her stuff as possible on my desk to minimize the impact on others. The result was probably overstressing myself.

The big help was Bubbles. She went to the Temple today and put my name on the prayer roll. attribute the result to what you will, but the result was amazing. Shortly after the time she did it, a review of my workload allowed me to calm considerably. I could tell it wasn't as bad as I'd been thinking. As the day progressed, every time I started to worry, I'd be calmed and assured everything was fine. And it was. She'd been praying for me before, and often times I know when she has been--her faith truly does move mountains. This was just an additional testimony of the power of the combined faith involved in temple worship, and it's a powerful one. I'm more confident than ever that I will be back to normal, and sooner rather than later.