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Hello everyone!

It’s been over five months since the surgeries and I’ve made wonderful progress! Yay! Thank you for your encouragement, your support and prayers!

I am still not where I need to be yet though. After surgery, I had partial facial paralysis. The nerves were still intact, but they weren’t active on the side where the operations occurred.

Since then, I am much, much better. However, I still don’t have control over my eye. This means that I need to keep eye gel in it all day, which means, as my eye doctor put it “You can’t see worth beans!”

LOL How right he was/is!

So I asked the surgeon about electronic stimulation which the physical therapist had recommended. He referred me to a facial nerve specialist and she said that electronic stimulation does more harm than good. But she did recommend minor surgeries (nothing like what I went through five months ago) so that I would be functional again.

I cleared it with my ophthalmologist and the surgeon: they both think that this is a reasonable course of action and I am scheduled for the first procedure later this month and then there will be a second procedure in early July.

Other than that, things are coming along. I don’t have much issue with dizziness but I do find that I have physical limitations that I didn’t before- lifting, scrubbing or bending are still issues as these are prone to giving me bad headaches, but maybe these symptoms will go away as time goes on.

I was hoping to heal naturally, but after five months it’s a concern that if you don’t use a muscle, you will lose it.

Thank you once again for your friendship, prayers, humor and support!

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