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  • Pick Me Up!

    WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME?

    Sep 23, 2021 5 minutes

    BIG health story

    Blinking my eyes open, I frowned.

    There was a searing pain in the left side of my face. It felt like a knife dragging through my flesh.

    Getting up, I rushed into the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

    But as I saw my reflection, I gasped.

    What’s wrong with me? I thought.

    The left side of my face had completely drooped, but the right side was untouched.

    It looked like I was melting. At first I panicked, thinking I was having a stroke.

    But I could still move my arms, so I knew it wasn’t that.

    Then I was worried it might be a tumour.

    Upset and frightened, I rang my GP and made an appointment. He gave me

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