Posted on 04/26/2024 8:50:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
Philadelphia 76ers superstar center Joel Embiid went viral Saturday for a video that appeared to show him unable to blink his left eye,
Fans speculated en masse about the bizarre video showing his eye and face, and we finally have an answer. It turns out he’s suffering from Bell’s Palsy, he revealed to reporters Thursday night.
“I think it started a day or two before the Miami game and I had you know bad migraines and thought it was nothing but usually I don’t like to check it out,” Embiid told reporters following the 76ers‘ playoff win over the New York Knicks on Thursday night. “But for some reason I ended up, you know, having to tell, you know, somebody and um yeah that’s why that Miami game was just my body was just I was just I was just not feeling it and then obviously lately with I don’t know if I’m sure if you Google the symptoms you know what it is.”
“It’s pretty annoying you know with my left side of my face, my mouth, and yeah, and my eye. So yeah it’s been tough but you know I’m not a quitter, so got to keep fighting … yeah it’s unfortunate that’s the way I look at it um but that’s not an excuse uh got to keep you know pushing,” Embiid concluded.
While he didn’t directly mention the Bell’s Palsy in his statement, a reporter asked him a question about it and Embiid seemed to acknowledge it.
“It hasn’t really necessarily gotten better,” Embiid said. “With the conversations that I’ve had, it could be weeks, it could be months. I just hope that it stays like this. I’ve got a beautiful face. I don’t like when my mouth is looking the other way. Unfortunate situation but everything happens for a reason.”
Despite the serious condition, which causes facial paralysis among other things, Embiid still balled out and dropped 50 on the Knicks, pulling his 6ers back from the brink in the playoff series which Philly still trails 2-1. Damn. That’s the definition of no excuses. Dude’s face isn’t working and he’s still balling.
Bell’s Palsy, hmmmmmmmmmmm, I wonder how he got that?...................
Hmmm, such a mystery
I know two people who had it, but 10-20 years ago.
Okay l’ll ask, where do you think he got it?
I’ll bite: read that Bell’s is associated w/jab
Does Bell’s Palsy also cause the patient , you know, to say
“You know” at least once per sentence? //
It’s also associated with mono, chickenpox, and.... genital herpes. Take your pick.
funny, it never really made the news before jab rollout. that’ll be on the top of my list.
You know, I don’t know, you know....................
You can also get it as a side affect of anesthesia.
It’s usually temporary.
It’s a total mystery.................😉
Not to be self-centered or anything 🤓 but 13 years ago one Saturday the left side of my face became numb, so I went to the hospital and they immediately put me in the stroke ward. Sunday morning the resident neurologist came in, ran me through a set of physical tests, then had me sit down, went out of the room and collected all the ward nurses to come in the room. “Nurses, I’m going to show you how to diagnose Bell’s Palsy instead of a stroke,” at which point I became his guinea pig. I still spent the next two days in the ward, completely cognitive and ambulatory of course; the visitors of other patients saw me wandering the halls and thought it was a miracle. Six weeks and acupuncture treatments later, the face went back to normal, with one exception: to this day I will get a tic around my left eye or left corner of the mouth which will last 10-20 minutes, then go away, and there isn’t anything anyone can do about it.
How Embiid got this, who knows. If he has smart trainers, and the Sixers should have smart trainers, he’ll overcome it fairly quickly, and return to his layups and free throws in the fall.
I know a guy who had Bell’s Palsy... He was an ambulance driver and he knew he had it... Went to the emergency room and he needed to convince them that he wasn’t having a stroke. That’s what the doctor’s and nurses thought. It’s typically temporary and it was for him, but some people’s facial muscles never recover. They’re fine, they just look screwed up.
We’ll never know...
I know somebody (unjabbed) who had it for about 24 hours after a root canal. Scary.
But it's also assoicated with the jab.
Poor guy is all banged up everywhere. And Knicks fans are losers.
I guess this means you go at him from the left. Or would that be “unsportsmanlike.”
"Do you know? Do you know? Do you know?"
Quite a story
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