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I worked the polls again yesterday. It mostly went excellent, with one major not excellent component which I'm going to write a separate post about. The thing I want to mention is the fact that I may have helped to make somebody's life a lot better yesterday and I just want to make a note of it.
Pretty sure I posted here about when half of my face went dead in April due to Bell's palsy. It's basically caused by a swelling of the facial nerve and you have to retrain all of your muscles in order so that they'll work again.
Well last night one of the school employees at the high school the poll was at had come by and asked me a few questions while I was on break. She winds up coming by later in the evening to drop off three vote-by-mail ballots, and happens to mention that one of the ballots is for her daughter who is 34 and had a stroke last year! Which 34 is young for a stroke and the mom said that she's still walking with a severe limp. The doctors were saying that it was going to be 5 years or so for a full recovery.
she's talking about her daughter's symptoms and the fact that she helps her husband out by doing massage on his flat feet. So I mentioned that I'd had the facial paralysis in April, the Bell's palsy. Then I let her know that for me, massaging the muscles helped with keeping things moving: like allowing some flexibility and help with the pain and just getting the muscles to move in the way that they're supposed to move but when a nerve thing happens they don't quite move right?
So we went from Mom remembering that /she'd /had Bells palsy when she had her son 30 years back, and oh yeah that!
And then we were all talking about actual places where you might go to get a massage, and it feels like I might've actually helped to make her daughter's life a little better by sharing that piece of my own experience with her. I do feel good about that.
I feel good about the rest of the work I did yesterday at the polls also, it was periods of extreme boredom and irritation interspersed with chunks of pretty solid work. Lots of folks came in and it was good talking with people and seeing their smiling faces well, mostly smiling faces.
Pretty sure I posted here about when half of my face went dead in April due to Bell's palsy. It's basically caused by a swelling of the facial nerve and you have to retrain all of your muscles in order so that they'll work again.
Well last night one of the school employees at the high school the poll was at had come by and asked me a few questions while I was on break. She winds up coming by later in the evening to drop off three vote-by-mail ballots, and happens to mention that one of the ballots is for her daughter who is 34 and had a stroke last year! Which 34 is young for a stroke and the mom said that she's still walking with a severe limp. The doctors were saying that it was going to be 5 years or so for a full recovery.
she's talking about her daughter's symptoms and the fact that she helps her husband out by doing massage on his flat feet. So I mentioned that I'd had the facial paralysis in April, the Bell's palsy. Then I let her know that for me, massaging the muscles helped with keeping things moving: like allowing some flexibility and help with the pain and just getting the muscles to move in the way that they're supposed to move but when a nerve thing happens they don't quite move right?
So we went from Mom remembering that /she'd /had Bells palsy when she had her son 30 years back, and oh yeah that!
And then we were all talking about actual places where you might go to get a massage, and it feels like I might've actually helped to make her daughter's life a little better by sharing that piece of my own experience with her. I do feel good about that.
I feel good about the rest of the work I did yesterday at the polls also, it was periods of extreme boredom and irritation interspersed with chunks of pretty solid work. Lots of folks came in and it was good talking with people and seeing their smiling faces well, mostly smiling faces.
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