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Callista
Why thank you, Darlin'! Nice to meet another from the Sunflower state!
LCM 
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 22, 2007 at 5:01 AM
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from one kansas girl to another, you are beautiful
posted by
jeansaw
on August 21, 2007 at 9:09 PM
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Mary
Thank you, my dear. I am getting better slowly but surely. (Can't rub my eyes)(and allergies are raging!)
Cee
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 21, 2007 at 7:15 PM
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LadyCee - All good news. Thinking of you every day.
posted by
FoliageGold
on August 21, 2007 at 5:27 AM
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TAPS
I think the images were too small on this article. The bigger pics it's pretty obvious. But I'm very pleased with the outcome! My husband's Aunt Mary, who is now my comrade in arms in Parkinson's, (only she's 82 and it's progressing much more rapidly and she is really suffering), had Bell's Palsy do the same thing to her in her 30s soon after the birth of their only child. She's a nurse, too! But her face never returned to the same, either.
Cee
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 19, 2007 at 9:27 PM
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Angel-
I never did either, until my nurse/programmer, who was starring at me funny, just said, "You know, Medicare will pay to fix that...."
I responded, "Fix WHAT?"
Then she told me about it. Said some of her other PD ladies had had it done. I'm so glad she spoke up. It WAS getting noticeable and my vision HAS improved quite a bit! I have eyelids again!
Cee
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on August 19, 2007 at 9:21 PM
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LadyCee
I don't see lop-sided in either of those pictures, but I'm sure that things like that are very noticeable to you. A nurse friend of mine, in her 40's, woke up one morning with one whole side of her face sagging and paralyzed--no expression or control at all in that side of her face. It was Bell's Palsy. She was off work for quite a while and it got a little tiny bit better but never returned to her normal look. It was really hard for her to come back to work and continue, but there was nothing else she could do. by the way there is a really big improvement in the two pictures. Its amazing how much that surgery helped you.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 19, 2007 at 9:07 PM
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I never knew any of that....
posted by
dark_mistress_again
on August 19, 2007 at 4:48 PM
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