Credit: SWNS / Caoimhe Reddy<br /><br />A woman who thought she had a head cold was rushed to hospital after she woke up to find half her face had become paralysed in the night.<br /><br />Caoimhe Reddy, 26, thought her cheek was just numb from 'sleeping funny' until she couldn't sip her morning coffee.<br /><br />When she looked in the mirror she realised the left half of her face was slumped - and 111 operators told her she might be having a stroke.<br /><br />But seven weeks of tests came back clear and doctors are still uncertain exactly that caused her paralysis.<br /><br />Their best guess is she is suffering inflamed facial nerves caused by an infection - and she just has to wait it out.<br /><br />Meanwhile she is struggling to eat, drink and talk - and has lost the use of the taste buds in half her tongue.
