What the hell is wrong with my face?!

It seems I always have to have some medical problem to make my life interesting. Today I was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy. Basically it's paralysis of one side of your face. Yesterday, all of a sudden I couldn't move the right side of my face! It completely freaked me out. My eye doesn't really blink or close all the way, when I try to smile nothing happens on that side, and even my taste buds on that side don't seem to be working. And my speech is also slurred, and eating and drinking on that side is quite difficult. I feel like I look like complete freak show, especially when I try to smile. I went to the doctor this afternoon and he confirmed the diagnosis I had already came up with from my great friend Google. But my doc is also sending me for a consult with a neurologist on Monday morning, just to be sure there isn't something else that he's missing.

Apparently, Bell's Palsy is inflammation of some nerve in the face that causes the paralysis. It can be caused by many many things like infections, viruses, colds, flu, and even pregnancy. He thinks it was probably triggered by the bad sinus infection I just got over. He said I should recover within 6 weeks, but maybe sooner or even later. WTF?! How am I supposed to go out in public like this? I got a steroid shot from the doc and some other meds that may speed up the recovery time, but who knows. Needless to say, I'm pretty freaked out about the whole thing and got really upset about it tonight. So, you all may see less of me in person until I get back to normal.; I'm just really self-conscious about the way I look and talk right now. :( Please say a prayer that this goes away; the sooner the better.