One year later… A twisty tale - Part III

Date - 29th December 2011 - 11 AM IST
Scene – Poona Hospital

So the anxiety and Battle going on my face has a name – Bell’s Palsy; suddenly It reminded me of my History books – the famous battle of Panipat and now here I am fighting battle of Pasly… so what is this thing actually. In Medical terms your nerves which control your facial movements gives away and you have no control on 50% of your facial muscles… In simple terms – this is a major communication problem as my brain was giving orders to my right side of face but nerves were not ready to listen, suddenly they have turned in to one of stubborn kind (this young generation nerves I tell you J ) or it seems they just revolted and went on a strike. Thankfully my other 50% of left facial nerves were loyal to me and for them it was BAU (Business as usual)…

My Neuro physician who was my official Tarot card reader for the day fixed my appointment with a senior Neurology expert and ENT expert to get his analysis confirmed and rule out any other possibilities – by this time I was firm believer that anything is possibleJ. ENT specialist didn’t find anything wrong in ENT area (my mom will be happy to hear it as I was a pathetic hygiene keeper as a kid). The senior Neurology expert again made me do all exercising specially one where i need to pull his hands from both of my hand one by one to ascertain my power equality – which confirmed my belief that I was really good at puling people; you know what I mean J…

They also did a test where they passed current on my cheeks to gauge which nerve was part of strike and which ones are loyal to me…  believe me I was close to believe I am in a Mental Hospital ;) but that’s the outcome of being selective two among a million. As part of medicine they put me on steroids and some antiviral medicines to fasten my recovery; but in actual medicine was time… Doc said me it will take around 2 months to recover but you know In India nothing runs on time J

Date - 29th December 2011 - 4 PM IST
Scene – Vikas’s Home

Had Lunch and rested for some time; most difficult task now was to inform family about Battle of Palsy; made first call to Dad and as always he was super cool; listened me patiently – no sign of getting panicked. Asked me if I want him to come over and had a talk with Vicky in detail. He assured me things will be fine and I should not worry at all – best part he said he will convey it to Mom in his own way and I should not worry on that – he is really superb J

Now the easy part (just kidding) – Lie to Sheetal about my situation – of course due to her being pregnant I didn’t told her about BAP (Battle of Palsy baba ) and termed it as Ear infection. Going back to home and staying alone was not an option after last night’s adventitious experience + I wanted to be with Sheetal during this time and decided to go to Surat in evening itself

Date - 29th December 2011 - 8 PM IST
Scene – Shreenath Travels

Vikas was kind of reluctant of me going to surat alone but I assured him that it will be ok and he dropped me to Bus Stop; he and Dinesh missed there office for me whole day and were with me all the times during doctor visit\test etc and there care and affection made me richer…  That’s the beauty of Friendship – it is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival...

Ahh forget to mention that Doc told me that my  overall face situation will worsen in next 2 days as Bell’s Palsy takes 2-3 days to show all its effects;  was not sure what’s left to worsen but I came to knew it the next day :)