I am sorry.
I promised some of my art friends here an essay/discussion today...
It won't appear due to my fight with shingles which has me down for the count...
Hoping for a better day tomorrow and another Friday next week for the art chat. Maybe the dang shingles will leave me alone...but I sure don't wish it on anyone else...
Take care, folks...
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I wish that you will get well soon, my friend. My father had shingles in his later years. His description was not nice.
I hope a virtual hug won't hurt too much.
No apology needed!!!
Feel better soon!!!
Shingles are awful! I hope you get better as soon as possible.
Peace, strength and healing to you.
Nasty condition
think docs don't dare prescribe it for fear of the narcs. Meanwhile, people like me suffer real pain. I don't understand what they think we are doing. We are pracically on our knees begging for relief and they just shrug and turn away...
because of you, I have resolved to get that shot as soon as I turn 60 
wishing the best you you my sweet
Sleep was the best help and all the more precious for being difficult to attain.
Calming nerves is key since it's all nerve connected and intense nerve pain. It's extra challenging since stress worsens it, but it causes so much stress. A little wine to help with that sounds fine to me since it helped you to sleep and sleep is the great healer, with this more than anything. For me this called an old story to mind, from those books by an English vet. In one of his cases he couldn't find a cure for some sheep that were ill and in pain and ended up giving them shots to at at least let them sleep. To his surprise, they slept for quite awhile, then awoke and were finally recovering. The break from the pain eased the stress that was interfering with their recovery. It wasn't as simple as that for me, but getting sleep and rest and any respite of calming moments I could was key to recovering. Then activity to get fresh air and move muscles and feel human again. I was working so the mix was very challenging. Sometimes I would be counting the minutes until I could go home.
With the continuing pain I had for so long, I also started worrying about neuralgia and that it would never end. It didn't help that I had a large area initially affected either. In my case, I had bouts of the pain hitting me out of the blue for some time after the other symptoms diminished, which caused me stress worrying that it would never fully abate. Fortunately, it eventually did. Sharing this in the hope that if yours follows a similar path, this might help to ease the stress from it in knowing that at least in my case, though I still had the pain continue as surprise shocks for some time, it did go away.
I did try a variety of things during this, with the l-lysine (I think pills and ointment) and the aveno oatmeal baths and good old calamine. They helped to soothe somewhat. And of course the frozen peas for immediate relief.
Feel free to PM me for a shoulder during a bout. I'm still up later due to our time difference so a time that's late for those near you is still early for me.
She has been great at getting people to take the shot.
It is nasty.
Get better fast.
K&R!
OS
through. I scrambled to get the vaccine as soon as it was out. One of my friends, older, can't have the vaccine because of the way his immune system works.
That's what matters.
