| Bell's palsy can be brought on by various viral infections. |
^^ Botox and dermal fillers can combat some of the lopsidedness and hollowness it causes where facial muscles go lax. |
I thought this too! |
| Also immediately thought Bell's Palsy |
Looks like Bell's palsy with filler used to balance the cheekbone and raise the corner of the mouth (which left a hollow cheek in between) and maybe a but under the chin to balance the chin/jowl; but they couldn't do anything about the eye, so they told him to squint. |
Actually makes sense. |
This tracks |
| He looks AWFUL! That man is sick. |
Is it Bell's palsy or is it the vestiges of an earlier TIA or stroke, brought on by stress and exhaustion? |
According to NIH, Covid has caused Bell's palsy in patients who have neurological complications of the disease: "Uncommonly, COVID-19 can also present with central nervous system manifestations such as ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, encephalo-myelitis, and acute myelitis, peripheral nervous manifestations such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and Bell’s palsy, and skeletal muscle manifestations such as rhabdomyolysis." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356133/ |
| His palms looked bluish too ? Circulation/oxygen? |
That's normal for him. |