Annitah Raey's emotional message after recovery from Bell's Palsy

Media personality Annitah Akiru Raey has fully recovered from Bell's Palsy.

In an update, Annitah shared a photo that captures her face fully healed after months of being paralyzed.

While battling the condition, Raey was at some point unable to talk or even eat but now she is fully recovered.

Bell's Palsy is a condition that temporarily paralyzes the face and for Annitah one side of her face had been paralyzed.

She expressed her gratitude to God and everyone who prayed for her during the battle with Bell's Palsy.

“Am fully recovered. Am super grateful.. Will forever be grateful because this has been the biggest lesson ever. Yaani I needed this.

“Am a living testimony of what God does for his people and I pray to keep reminding others of God's Grace,” Anita Raey said in part.

“Thank you for the messages and love it was a source of strength. For the calls, the visits, the dates, the hugs… Thank you ♥️♥️ Now on to the next chapter,”.

In September 2023, Anita Raey opened up on her journey with Bell's Palsy- is a condition that causes sudden weakness in the muscles on one side of the face.

In an interview with Massawe Japanni, Anita says she did not think it was something serious at the beginning.

"I was in Kilifi in July where I worked with an NGO when the ailment started. When I came back to Nairobi I was shivering yet I had two sweaters and I was inside a duvet.

“I told my cousin I wasn't feeling well. The entire weekend I had such a bad headache. On Monday I was still feeling bad. On Tuesday I went to a doctor and he prescribed some meds,".

Unknown to Anita things would only get worse

"I realized I couldn't close my right eye. I couldn't even take anything with a straw, when I did It would drip. The next day when I woke up my face was sagging on one side. I tried calling my sister but I realized I had no voice. I had to text my sister yet we were in the same house.

“I called my doctor and he told me what to do, but because I was to go to Mombasa I decided I would take those tests there."

She added;

"I didn't think it was something serious, I thought it was something that would go away.

"I went to Mombasa via a train, the pain was so unbearable, that I would get pain spasms. The doctor told me it can lead to stroke. I was taken for Physiotherapy, I cried so much and thought I would die.

"The pain started at around 10:00 PM and ended around 6:00 AM. The pain is worse than child labor.

"They gave me steroids and medications for that. The doctor explained to me that I had Bell's Palsy."

Doctors told her that it would take at least six months for her to heal

"The doctor told me that it would take me six months for me to get well. I prayed and cried, I was so bitter with God.

“I couldn't eat, my tongue became numb on one side. I had to switch off my phone because I had no voice. I couldn't wink nor close one eye, I couldn't bite with one side. One ear started aching I had to go back to the hospital," she added. 

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