OK.

You can now officially call me Twitch Face.

Oh, I’ll still stab you in the thigh with a baby emperor penguin, but at least you wouldn’t actually be factually flawed in your observation.

I don’t really think about the D-Sease anymore.

Only when someone goes, oh wow you can't even tell anymore, do I really remember that I was pretty well fucked in a non-enjoyable way at the start of the year.

Which probably means I’m almost fully recovered. Almost.

The palsy isn't really an issue any more.

There has been some twitching in my upper right cheek over the past couple of weeks. A pulsing. Pulling. Which is hopefully the last of the 7th cranial nerve rebuilding itself.

My eye almost closes properly again.

Freaky shit, huh?

I can also almost execute a proper maniacal grin again.

A lot of that improvement has been down to my 5-month-old daughter, (good God, it's almost 6!) who was coincidentally born the same day I started to get sick.

D-other Girl is a very happy and smiley baby.

It killed me in the early days when she would smile at me and all I could do in reply was … well, pretty much nothing, facially. But she kept smiling anyway, so I kept trying, and slowly my lopsided grimaces became something resembling a smile again.

She’s so cute. I could just eat her up.

: )

The only thing really still bothering me is the tinnitus in my right ear. Sometimes it’s not there, or hardly noticeable, at all. But then other times it is.

Like when the officer says “Put down the gun, Sir!”. And then he Tasers me because I didn’t hear that request. Fucker.

I guess I’ll get a letter to go back to the specialist in the next month to find out whether it’s permanent and to what degree.

Not a big deal. At least I can make custard again like a normal non-retarded person.

It was all just like a bad dream.

Oh, and for the record … my archives may have mentioned something about crying in Those Days. That was a typographical error. The D-Man has never cried in his life.

So, where it mentioned I “shed tears”, that should in fact read that I “shed pounds”.

I’ve gained it all back now though.

Beefcake!