I never thought it would happen to me. It's always someone else. But I was wrong.
It was my 30th birthday at the end of January 2003. You know, when everything is supposed to go downhill. A few days later it hit me like a ton of bricks.
I was an IT Consultant working on a major project when I started to get some serious head pains. Excruciating to the point where I couldn't touch the ends of my hair.
Within a week it was diagnosed as Bell's palsy and then a few days later it was confirmed as Ramsay Hunt's syndrome II.