What is up everybody? Welcome to Anglein Anarchy. My name is Brian and this is probably one of the only videos you're gonna see on this channel that isn't 100% about fishing. So I'll just get right into it. I had something interesting happen to me called Bell's Palsy. So if you can notice, this side of the face isn't working so hot. I guess what happens is you get a little nerve damage. The nerve that controls this side of the face, it kind of gets inflamed by either a virus or it could be Lyme's disease. They check me for that and don't have that. It's a weird thing. It's just something that kind of pops up and you take some meds and prednisone that gave me and you hope like heck that it just goes away. Could be two weeks, could be two months. It might be stuck like this. Let's fingers crossed. That's not the case. But yeah, it's just a weird thing that happened and I wanted to talk about it, maybe make like a little video journal. Hopefully I can have some clips of me getting better here. I know when I first found this, I kind of hopped on YouTube to look at videos of what other people were going through. So I figured, hey, what the heck? I'm gonna talk about what's happening with me. So it's kind of weird the way it came on to. It just all of a sudden kind of popped up. It's kind of noticed over the weekend. So it's been like this for about a week, maybe eight, nine days. But yeah, it was weird. I noticed food tasted different. My tongue was kind of numb and it went from that to I want to I looked in the mirror to kind of brush my teeth and smiled and this is all that happens. There's nothing going on over here. It's just the one side. So, of course, the first thing you think of is, am I having a stroke? But my arm felt fine. I could still think. I was thinking, I can't be that. But ran into the emergency room right away. The dock, said, yeah, it's Bell's palsy. Here's the Pred in his own. Take this. It's a hit it hard for a week. Get the swelling down hopefully. And and wait it out. So, yeah, that's that's what I'm dealing with right now, I guess. And it's, yeah, it sucks, but it's not the worst thing in the world. There's definitely worst things that get happened to you. And fingers crossed, this will rectified self. And we won't be stuck looking at me smirking. I look like I smirk all the time if I smile. But yeah, let's hopefully this will be a video of progression. Of the face getting better. Because, yeah, right now this is a smile. And blinking if I try really hard, I can get that out of shot. But I've been pretty lucky. I, you know, I've seen stories from people that their eye just stays open all the time. So when they sleep at night, they have to, you know, take their eye shut. I can basically kind of bury my head into a pillow and and keep it shut that way and, you know, hit it with some eyedrops every now and again. The toughest part was right after it happened, we went on a fishing trip to Northern Wisconsin, musky fishing. And I had to have my polarized glasses on. So I put my contacts in as sparingly as I could only put them on when I was on the boat. You know, just to be able to see the fish in the water, wanted to have the polarized lenses on. And I dried out a little bit. We're in the contacts, but made it through the weekend. Got some good fish. So we've got some cool videos coming from that. But yeah, I mean, so that's the worst thing that's happened so far as the eye dried out a little bit. But, but it's fine. So. Okay, well, I'm going to stop talking about it. Hopefully, again, we won't be stuck like this. We'll see a progression of this getting better. The only upside I've figured out to it not getting better is I've got a good Halloween costume for the rest of my life. If it stays like this, I can be either dick chaining or two face from Batman. I've got to look at the upside people. Got to have some humor about this. I mean, life's a weird thing. This is definitely a strange feeling. It's like you went to the dentist and they hit you up with a novacane and it went up in your whole face and it's just stuck like that. So the next clip is hopefully going to be of me getting progressively better. So we shall see. All right, well, we are a full two weeks into this whole Bell's Paul Z. I had to see. And I think, thankfully, I think I've turned the corner here. It's been about five days since my initial talking to you guys about about what's going on. I think my speech has improved a little bit. Nothing it was ever bad. I got really lucky with this. Never had my speech impaired too bad. My eye was able to stay shut at night. So I haven't had like tape it shut. It's a little dry in the morning, but so it's not probably getting fully shot. But I think I got lucky and I didn't have a real bad spell of this. Just enough to be annoying. The tongue is still a little bit numb, but I think it's really hard to tell because not being able to move the side of your face is such a strange thing. But there's been a couple of times in the past day or so that I was able to kind of kick the corner of my mouth up a little bit. And even though I can feel my mouth, I think I can get the corner up every now and again. It's really, it's almost like involuntarily. It happens. A smile still looks like this. So it's not a whole lot going on over here with that. But yeah, we're getting better. And I, this is probably lovely looking, but I think I've got a little bit more control over the eye and the side of the face. I think we're doing better. Hopefully we'll know more in five days, but that's what I know for now. All right, it is day 19 and finally starting to see some good results. So this is a smile now. Still not a full smile, but there's a lot more going on over here than there was before. And even got a little bit of movement in the eyebrows. And I found out I could do this just this morning. I can whistle again. I haven't been able to do that since this whole Bell's Paul thing started. So yeah, day 19 and starting to see really good results that everything over here is going to be coming back. So that's it. That's the day 19 update. Hopefully the next time I talk to you all this will be if not fully functional back to as normal as I could hope for. So we shall see. All right. Well, I'm happy to say that I think this is going to be the last part of this whole Bell's Paul'sy little journal video journal that I'm doing. I'd say I'm back 90, 95 percent. Still a little bit of a lopsided smile, but you know, there's maybe not the quite the movement. I don't know. But I feel completely normal now. The tongue's back to being. I mean, it's so weird having half of your tongue be just not being able to taste anything or feel anything. I'm basically just one half of your face. It's such a weird sensation, but it's been just about three weeks. So if you're watching this and you're dealing with this, I hope that your recovery is as speedy as mine. If it isn't hang in there, it's most likely going to get better. But what a what a weird thing to happen. You know, so that's it for anybody that came into this channel just to see about this thing. I appreciate you watching. Hey, take up fishing. This is cool channel. Watch this stuff. And for everybody else, I've got some videos coming up from Northern Wisconsin where I'm in the midst of, I mean, it's really bad. And you can really tell, but we do catch some cool fish. We're up in Northern Wisconsin. So be on the lookout for those videos. And just thanks for watching everybody. We are creeping up on 2000 subscribers, which is such a cool milestone. I appreciate every single one of you. And I will see you all later. .