Mum's horror after shingles left her with 'resting bitch face'

A mum has told how a bout of severe shingles left her face paralysed - giving her a “permanent resting BITCH FACE”. Brave Lisa Beardsley, 41, says damaged nerves mean most of the time she looks “like a miserable cow”. Lisa had thought nothing of tiny marks on her neck - until two weeks later her face started to droop. Fearing she was having a stroke, she called an ambulance and was taken to hospital where she lost the ability to talk, eat, drink and smile over four hours. Doctors discovered the single mother-of-two had harboured the chicken pox virus, which lay dormant for years until it randomly flared up, leading to the facial paralysis.