{"id":997,"date":"2009-01-24T16:41:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T16:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/ruprecht-and-bells-palsy-and-yeah-i-know-its-not-funny-but-sometimes-it-is\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T04:50:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T04:50:59","slug":"ruprecht-and-bells-palsy-and-yeah-i-know-its-not-funny-but-sometimes-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/ruprecht-and-bells-palsy-and-yeah-i-know-its-not-funny-but-sometimes-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"ruprecht and bells palsy and, yeah, i know it&#8217;s not funny, but sometimes it is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to make light, this freaky little friend of mine has been telling me I remind him of Ruprecht when I eat.   This makes me laugh.  When I laugh, I drool a little.  This makes me laugh more. <\/p>\n<p>I never imagined I&#8217;d be pleased to have half my face feel numb.  But that&#8217;s what I am today.  Pleased.  After being told earlier this week that I could <em>look forward <\/em>to my unilateral facial paralysis healing in <strong>six to nine months<\/strong>&#8230;I gotta admit, laughing at a Dirty Rotten Scoundrel joke and procrastinating with polyvore were the only things that kept me from depression. <\/p>\n<p>But today I can feel the left side of my face burn.  It&#8217;s still not working properly.  I have a wonky smile.  I&#8217;m still sporting an eye patch.  Food is best served pureed&#8230;but not really consumed because it just takes too much time and effort and everything tastes like salt anyway (the taste buds on my left side have also been affected).   <\/p>\n<p>What started as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/sick-and-tired-and-prufrock\/\"target=_blank>heavy cold<\/a> and sore throat became a set of ear aches and a viral infection that spread to my cranial nerve and paralysed the left side of my face.  A COLD, people.  <strong>A COLD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let this be a lesson to all those who shun medical treatment because they don&#8217;t like the idea of playing pawn to pharmaceutical companies.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to make light, this freaky little friend of mine has been telling me I remind him of Ruprecht when I eat. This makes me laugh. When I laugh, I drool a little. This makes me laugh more. I never imagined I&#8217;d be pleased to have half my face feel numb. But that&#8217;s<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}