Great encouragements on the Defrosting Of My Face Front, with more control and movement each day. I even have a few wrinkles returning on my forehead and the corner of my eye - something I never thought I'd be so happy about! Vision and hearing still impaired, but I'm hopeful that will return.
On the Virus Front, I'm still feeling quite lousy and I've had this thing for THREE WEEKS now!
It's a nasty virus, but aside from feeling annoyed and rotten and ready for it to move along, I'm not too concerned, since it seems to be following the same slow course for me as it has for those I caught it from (except for my additional complications of paralysis!).
I spent the past three days in bed - taking naps and sleeping 12 hours at night - very thankful it was finally the weekend. I'd felt like doing that all last week, but had to go to work. Today I was able to stay home and work from bed on the computer all day (one of the occasionally possible perks of being a business owner).
Just for the record, the virus symptoms began (the first week and a half) with aching, burning eyes, headache, fever and fatigue. The past week and a half there's been no fever, but the aching, burning eyes, low-grade headache and fatigue have continued, along with sinus and bronchial congestion, difficulty breathing, sore throat, earache, tinnitus, and today dizziness. Yesterday and today it finally feels like it's starting to progress and move down into my nose, rather than just being packed up in my sinuses, and I've been coughing productively.
I have had thoughts of "What if this continued inflammation in my head damages the nerve on the left side of my face too? Or causes my recovering right nerve to be suffocated again, just when it's starting to heal, now that I'm off the steroids?" But I can't let myself dwell on that. I just have to rest as much as I can and support my system in fighting this.
It's so funny that I can be so bothered about feeling sick, more than about being paralyzed! I need to speak the same truths to my heart that I was believing at the beginning of this: God is in control; This virus can stay no longer than He allows; He is sovereign over everything that this is getting in the way of; My hope is in Him alone, not in how I feel or any prognisis; He's working all things for my good because I belong to Him and He loves me!
[Correction: my doctor corrected my thinking about this - most viruses only last 5-7 days, but the aftermath and damage they do to our bodies can stay for weeks. Our bodies shift vital energy to our immune systems and healing systems, leaving not enough energy to carry out daily activity. I don't continue to have an infection that's still causing damage...it's the lingering aftermath. My body just considers healing this facial nerve to be more important than allocating resources elsewhere, and that's why I'm feeling so drained. And all the symptoms I still have - my body is just dealing with the aftermath of the infection still and that's taking longer to work its way out.]
On the Virus Front, I'm still feeling quite lousy and I've had this thing for THREE WEEKS now!
It's a nasty virus, but aside from feeling annoyed and rotten and ready for it to move along, I'm not too concerned, since it seems to be following the same slow course for me as it has for those I caught it from (except for my additional complications of paralysis!).
I spent the past three days in bed - taking naps and sleeping 12 hours at night - very thankful it was finally the weekend. I'd felt like doing that all last week, but had to go to work. Today I was able to stay home and work from bed on the computer all day (one of the occasionally possible perks of being a business owner).
Just for the record, the virus symptoms began (the first week and a half) with aching, burning eyes, headache, fever and fatigue. The past week and a half there's been no fever, but the aching, burning eyes, low-grade headache and fatigue have continued, along with sinus and bronchial congestion, difficulty breathing, sore throat, earache, tinnitus, and today dizziness. Yesterday and today it finally feels like it's starting to progress and move down into my nose, rather than just being packed up in my sinuses, and I've been coughing productively.
I have had thoughts of "What if this continued inflammation in my head damages the nerve on the left side of my face too? Or causes my recovering right nerve to be suffocated again, just when it's starting to heal, now that I'm off the steroids?" But I can't let myself dwell on that. I just have to rest as much as I can and support my system in fighting this.
It's so funny that I can be so bothered about feeling sick, more than about being paralyzed! I need to speak the same truths to my heart that I was believing at the beginning of this: God is in control; This virus can stay no longer than He allows; He is sovereign over everything that this is getting in the way of; My hope is in Him alone, not in how I feel or any prognisis; He's working all things for my good because I belong to Him and He loves me!
[Correction: my doctor corrected my thinking about this - most viruses only last 5-7 days, but the aftermath and damage they do to our bodies can stay for weeks. Our bodies shift vital energy to our immune systems and healing systems, leaving not enough energy to carry out daily activity. I don't continue to have an infection that's still causing damage...it's the lingering aftermath. My body just considers healing this facial nerve to be more important than allocating resources elsewhere, and that's why I'm feeling so drained. And all the symptoms I still have - my body is just dealing with the aftermath of the infection still and that's taking longer to work its way out.]
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