Facial Expressions WERE a Way of Life

Ok, so while life recently has been good in a lot fo respects, well it got a little weirder and more annoying this past Saturday. I was at my Army FTX(Field Training Exercise), which by the way was not fun at all. 3 days in the field at FT. Ethan Allan. So to give alittle history this probably goes back further than that. A few weeks ago, I got the flu, fallowed by this absolutely awful mouth virus, the many awful and disgusitng things of which I will spare oyu all the details. Anyway, well the final results of this virus dissapeared around the beginnign of last week. I was doing good. I was feelign better, and almsot ready to go on the FTX. All was well till Saturday when we were in the field I knew somethign was wrong. I thought I poped y jaw, because it felt weird when i chewed and such. Ok, well On Sunday ti began to become very apparent. I couldn't move the muscles on one side of my face.I was a little freaked out to say the least. I went to the doctor first thing on Monday morning. They knew what it was. They have diagnosed it as something called Belles Palsy. It is a parlysis of one side of the face. Don't worry they tell me it is a temporary thing. It is sort of funny. I get the weirdest looks and questions like, " hey man did you have a stroke or something?" All I have to say is this better go away quick, because whiel it doesnt really hurt, it is making life difficult and mostly just annoying me. For instance how many people do you know who can only smile on one side or who's eye just won't completely shut without some minor assitance. I guess there is somethign good toget out of this. i will let you know when I find it, but ti makes me thankful for my smile, which by the way I used to think was sort of dorky. When I get it back, I hope I never complain again.