Ok so, long story, will try to cut it down to an easy read...

Around a month ago, on my birthday, I got diagnosed with Bell's Palsy. Not an end-all disease, but an annoying one to be sure, with my face looking like I had a stroke and being unable to move half my face to any degree. Had to wear an eye patch for a while until I got enough control back to close my eyelid by myself. By now I've mostly recovered, but have had a very bad lingering headache. Not a typical 'oh, it hurts a bit, I'll lie down and it'll be better' type of headache. This was an all day every day, 24/7 no breaks type of headache that only was dulled by taking too much aspirin/ibuprofen, which I took them in shifts to avoid overdosing on the other. Not sure if that was secretly some sort of bad move due to medicine mismatching, but this pain was so intense, and I didn't want to overdose on one or the other.

To make matters worse, my insurance ended up being declined, and the doctor's office I did visit that told me they would waive the fee for me? Sent a bill for almost $200 just for the first visit. And I needed to see a doctor again, but if they're going to try to bleed me dry because my insurance doesn't work here? No deal.

So I made the difficult decision to double-back to my origins to use my state-wide insurance. My insurance was declined where I was living with  Twintail, so I got on the bus back to Arkansas, from Oregon. 55 hours of pure mass-transit nonsense. Almost had my PC destroyed due to poor luggage handling (thankfully I managed to fix it on arrival) and my complaint went unheard. Greyhound buses are no bueno.

I'm back here now in Arkansas, hopefully temporarily, sort of living in rough but liveable conditions. My first move was to make a doctor's appointment here and double check with them that my insurance does in fact work here still, and it does. So I got examined right away at the earliest day I could.

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It's been about a week since my first hospital visit, and over two visits, the scary thing is...they don't know what's wrong with me. Their first diagnosis is that the Bell's Palsy may have done more damage then first seems, but they can't see any damage or lumps, bumps or otherwise unusual conditions around my face that would be causing it.

What they do know so far is that, I'm not getting enough blood to my head. My body has high blood pressure due to my weight, but there is not as much going up. They suggested it may be just that, some blockage due to clots because I'm fat, but if that were the case I'd of already had a legitimate stroke, or more than just super tense headaches. They mentioned it could be a vein or artery kinking, but as things stand they can't tell without more examinations and possibly surgery.

I have been prescribed more steroids and stronger pain medicine, which has helped in a big way, but it has made me unenergetic and not able to do much besides sit about.

So that's how things are currently...Will update as things develop...