>I thought I would make a list of all those little things that seem to come with these conditions. Some may be obvious, and some perhaps not so much. I'll leave out the most common things, like "eye won't shut" and "pain behind ear." These are those everyday things that people might not realize make the lives of those with one of the conditions a little tougher, and perhaps even a bit more humorous. Mine anyway.
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>1. Spitting water out after brushing teeth goes sideways.

You've got the whole sink - why worry?

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>5. Just because tears are flowing from my eye, it does not mean I'm crying.

That can be the title of your book when you write about all this and make a million!

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>9. The ones that can still look you in the eyes during a conversation are you true friends.

I have a friend with a glass eye. I still don't know which one to look into!

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>11. I can do a pretty good Mr. Spock imitation now.

But I bet you can't say his mother's name! :-)

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>13. I now lisp and sound kind of gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

An inordinate number of black boxers do too, for some reason. But I wouldn't tell them that to their faces

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>14. If you are mad and swearing, some of the intensity is lost when your "F" sounds like "W" and your "B" sounds like an "F."

Must be difficult when you're telling yourself to "buck up"

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