Hi, I'm Jim Martin. A few days ago I woke up with the left side of my face slumped.

Now luckily, after going to the hospital, etc, it wasn't a stroke, but it turns out that it's Bell's palsy that's what I think it is and

although they don't know for sure many scientists believe that Bell's palsy comes

from some dormant virus that we have in our body, which apparently we all have,

and occasionally for some unknown reasons they flare up.

I haven't been sick or anything like that and I'm in very good general health.

I know that for sure because they did a lot of tests on me.

Anyway, in this case, it affects the nerves that control all the face muscles on my left side. Obviously it affects drinking, eating, blinking, and of course and the worst for me is speech.

Because this is what I do for a living.

I'm being treated and hopefully will recover,

but there's no guarantee,

and how long this is going to take is anyone's guess.

Now, I'm only telling you this because I don't want you to mistake

this occasional slur or fumble as some sort of drunken binge or something. No I haven't

hit the bottle. It's Bell's palsy and I'm working really, really hard to hide it and find new ways to pronounce my words.

And hopefully I can pull this off. Oh, okay, Kathy and I were in Bogota and I were in Bogota and we went into this barrier and six guys came up and three grabbed Kathy, three grabbed me.

The main guy at the front had a knife.

They, one put their arms around us from the back,

so that arms were held down,

but both Kathy and I are quite large,

so they couldn't sort of stop us.

So they just grabbed a plastic bag that had a couple of beers in it, asked us for mobile phones,

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