An update:
- became a 'seminar patient'
- have to go for a CAT scan
- the specialists cannot explain or fix the facial pain
- they came up with some possible solutions, each with their own big risks...
...which they will only talk to me in person about them
- a specialist plastic surgeon is taking me on as his patient
(as my plastic surgeon can't help)
- and to top it off a close family friend committed suicide last week