Test, Test, Test

The night before my annual medical visit I spent a near sleepless night dealing with issues related to my daughter’s illness. During that night I felt irritation in my right eye. In the morning I realized I was spraying mouthwash all over the bathroom because I could not keep the right side of my mouth firmly closed. It was clear to me at that moment that I had developed Bell’s palsy, a paralysis of the facial muscles only on one side. “It results from a dysfunction of cranial nerve VII (the fac...