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A year after (BP, yeah BP)

July 1, 2009 Thea Alberto Leave a comment Go to comments

Exactly a year ago, I was diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy, more known as facial paralysis. Yes, it was one of the hardest trials in my still young life and now, a year after all it happened, I am more than grateful to have gotten over that health bump.

It may have threatened my physical appearance and emotional strength but now I think I know better. :) Indeed, what doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger. After all, it was an experience I would forever be thankful for–at least maybe for the fact that Nixlove, Mommy, family and friends stood by me and helped me get through. Nix and mom, especially, had been very patient with me, giving me support during the painful therapy sessions, putting up with all my mood swings that came with the pain, the physical disability, and the fear that I could never recover again.

They made sure I would still love myself, at a time when I thought I had actually started hating my own face.

I hope BP won’t relapse (some 20 percent of the cases do, and thank heavens that’s a relatively small number).  So now, instead of letting stress get into me, I decided to leave a stressful job and take the opportunity to grow. :)

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, which reminds me of my next topic: the resignation. :)

But that blog post will have to wait. I still have a few more days with the top Philippine news website :D

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  1. Brinks
    July 2, 2009 at 2:10 am | #1
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    Hanep 1 year na agad ang nakalipas. :) Ambilis tlga noh…super applicable nga ang quote na un..
    good luck sa new job!!! yahoo yahoo!!!! ^_____^

    • Thea Alberto
      July 2, 2009 at 2:14 am | #2
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      thanks brinks!!! :D ang bilis nga ng panahon, one year na yun agad! :) yahooooo!! :) hihi :)

  2. twelfthdimension
    July 7, 2009 at 2:32 am | #3
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    Hi there, thanks for the encouragement. A full recovery in less than 2 months is impressively short. I cannot agree more on how BP will eventually make us stronger individuals, let us learn to love ourselves more and not to let the stress get to us. :) I have stopped taking the steroids actually and switched to a chinese physician instead. I will be undergoing acupuncture in the next 2 weeks or so. Just for the note, what do you mean exactly by full therapy? My doctor at the hospital did nothing more than giving me the steroids … I have the vitamin B pills at home, but something in it doesn’t go with my head. I always end up with assorted dreams throughout the night after popping the vit B, so i somewhat stopped taking them.

    Not forgetting, thanks again for dropping by. It means alot to me talking to a fellow human who encountered the same illness as me. People who didn’t wouldn’t be able to experience the full extent of what we gone through, much less relate in a manner we would wish them to.

    • Thea Alberto
      July 7, 2009 at 5:11 pm | #4
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      Yup, don’t lose hope :) i heard acupuncture is good too. I was supposed to try it but then improvements came early :)

      you need your vitamin b complex, it speeds up nerve recovery. i think the dreams are normal haha, because you’re stressed and yes, b complex makes you a lot sleepy, at least in my case. :)

      by full therapy, i actually went to sessions with a physical therapist. they electrocuted my affected side of the face almost everyday, so the muscles won’t stiffen. it won’t do much for your nerves but at least your muscles will be reminded of what they’re supposed to do–and that’s to move! :) also don’t forget to do your regular facial exercises, it really sped up my recovery. check out the internet for facial exercises. :) it can be frustrating to look at yourself in the mirror and see half of it not moving, but believe me, exercise still helps :)

      you’ll get better! :D believe in it and it will happen :)

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