Efforts to make a comic about this have been holding me back, so I did a simple portrait sketch in order to shove it aside and get things moving again. The news is that damage to the temporal branch of my right facial nerve, due to my craniotomy in April, now allows me to aim judgmental/quizzical expressions at whomever I wish, all day and every day. I never could move my eyebrows independently before, so maybe that's #thepresent here. Some say the nerve may regenerate. I keep testing it hopefully, and also trying to #mindfully accept things as they are. I'm lucky to have retained as much function as I have. #symmetryisoverrated . . #graphicmedicine #comics #illustration #braintumor #patientperspective











