this is a whole series of snaps you can see here of anna robertson, 27 years old, and she woke up one morning. you may notice not everything seems to be going according to plan with her face. >> did she have a stroke? >> that was her initial thought. she woke up convinced what happened, have i had a throat, but she was palsy. out of nowhere, the left side of her face had gone completely numb. she could not move it. the thing is with bells palsy, one in 14 people that suffer from it never recover, and they said this may be permanent, but she decided that she wanted to smile. and you could see as she goes through the pictures and snaps, she's having fun with it, and slowly sort of moving her mouth and trying to train her face to remember how to smile. was just so she could smile at christmas. she's been very open and honest about the situation and she shows all kinds of things, like the fact she has to tape her eye closed at night so she can sleep, otherwise her eye will be open. in august, two months later, here she is now. >> yes, i'm still having to tape it to sleep at night. but i'm