Okay, so I am going to start out by telling you all how it all got started. Like a mini story you can say.
The left side is kind of swollen and i was not able to open my mouth on the left side either
So Last July I was out with my boyfriend and my best friend fishing. We decided to call it a night about 2 am. After we loaded up the truck everyone started to notice my lip was big (kind of like you have a dip in) so they asked me what I was dipping and I told them nothing. We pulled the truck over and they sat in the car and watched my lip grow a little bit bigger. We rushed home and my dad thought I was just biting my lip again and just to head to bed and show my mom when she wakes up in a few hours for work, I did that just like he said. When I showed my mom my lip was 10x bigger at this time ,not only that but i could not move the left side of my face. So she jumped in the truck and toke me to the nearest hospital. On the way, my face was getting so bad that it felt like my throat was started to swell up. So when we finally got to the hospital they saw me, gave me some time to take the swelling down, and called it Bells Palsy and sent me on my way and told me to see my family doctor in about a week. This was the start of a long journey!
Well a few days passed and the med`s they put me on just were not working, so we go to my doctor. He says there is no way this is Bells palsy, it does not swell it only causes paralysis. From there he sent me to many, many different doctors. At first they agree with him, run me to do lots of blood work (lets just say I am a 2 year old when it comes to my blood) and they all say they have no idea. Second trip to all these doctors and they tell me "Oh its bells palsy, go see this doctor."
Finally it went away, Just a few days before school, but heat cause my left side to swell.. So I started my senior year (suppose to be the best year of your life, well think again). I was out on the school farm when the second episode happens. We run me up to the nurse, called my mom asap, and went right back to the same hospital and they said the same thing! My doctor this time shot me in the butt with medical for a whole week (I am not talking one shot a day, I am talking like 3 or 4). He tried again sending me to some good doctors but they played the same things as the other doctors. My so called friends started to go away too, they did not want to be seen with a girl who had to drink from a straw, hold her mouth open to eat, could not even smile the same, but that did not stop me. As I went on in school, I ended up getting other things, Like pains in my head (not headaches but pains ), blurry vision on my left side, and my hearing went in and out, and memory loss, a lot of it too. I was only showing up to school maybe once a week to gather work, and turn work into my classes. With the help of my mom and dad and my boyfriend and the rest of my family explaining things to me and helping me I was making all A`a and B`s. Well my face went back to normal but the pains stayed and so did the vision and hearing, so i went back to school more. I ended up going into surgery to remove a mass in my nose and it cleared it all up. I got my surgery in shands hospital
Finally I was back in school, and it happened again, On the farm once again. So this time we go to another hospital and they said they they do not know what I have, but i should go see a specialist and no place hospital in my county has the ability or equipment to tell me I have bells palsy. So i do as they say, and go back to one of the best hospitals in Florida. So I am back to one day a week at school and losing all my friends. I show up to school one day hanging out in attendance when the teacher asked me to go to the gym and give them coach this for a student. Well when I got down there and he looked at me while I started to talk he laughed at me, right in my face. (yeah it hurt a lot) Well as I start to turn around he looks at a kid and says "wow shes a freak" I lost it , I went straight up to the office and called my dad, I wanted to drop out and be home school.. There was suppose to be a investigation but never happened like every time there is suppose to be one against him. Of course the bad guys always get away, he has done far worst then he has done to me. Finally I went back to school for no one else but me and my face went back to normal about a month ago.. I graduated May 23 while all my fellow old friends and teachers who made fun of me watched me cry walking off that stage because they do not know they HELL I have been through and the selected few who believed in me saw me walk...
Its been a week since I have been out of school and I am in the process of looking for a job trying to work with animals or kids, because they do not judge and I love working with them. Right now my boyfriend is the one supporting me and helping my parents out and they help me when I need it.. They all want me to get the job of my dreams. That only when I can afford to open my own business but for now I just want to find something working for either of those. I have been through hell and I made it over one bridge i thought I was not Going to be able to this year, but I did it , and I was able to do it with a smile. Now I am looking for a job so I can live my dream of moving to Pennsylvania with my family and opening up my business. It`s going to be along rode but I know I can do it.
I tried holding in the tears it did not work one bit lol
This is my mom and my oldest sister :)
This is my whole family. My support through everything.
front left to right: my little sis (dory), my dad (Ed), my nephew, and my oldest sister (linsie)
middle and top left to right: my boy friend (Chris), me!!!!! my mom (maire) ,sister boy friend (dani), and in the very back my uncle (ben)
I am not sure when its going to come back but when it does ill kick its butt like every other time : )
THANK YOU FOR READING -SUMMER
