{"id":12,"date":"2012-06-15T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/?p=12"},"modified":"2016-11-10T08:24:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T13:24:12","slug":"shingles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganheartinmaine.com\/Ramblings\/2012\/06\/15\/shingles\/","title":{"rendered":"Shingles …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So I\u2019m glad I have a high tolerance for pain \u2026 the reason? \u2026 shingles.<\/p>\n

the past two weeks have been a small bit of hell for me. I noticed what I thought was a small insect bite on my temple a couple Mondays ago and when I came home from over the road Thursday of last week it had developed into a case of full blown shingles \ud83d\ude41 not fun.<\/p>\n

Imagine if someone basically poured acid over the side of your head \u2026 then rubbed salt in it \u2026 that would be close to what it felt like \u2026 Oh, and I can\u2019t forget the swollen lymph nodes that basically turned my nice round Charlie Brown head into a sort of a deflated football shape \u2026once again, not fun \u2026 so last Thursday I went to the doc and then had to go to the eye clinic because it almost got into my eyes \u2026 but I started a week of anti-viral meds and today I\u2019m almost good as new \ud83d\ude42 Of course the past two weeks have been a total wash for being productive .. my schedule was 1) work, then 2) sleep.<\/p>\n

So here are some of my random thoughts for the past two weeks:<\/p>\n

\u201d This Sucks! \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201d Batman should really lay off of Two-Face \u2026 I mean, it\u2019s really kinda his fault for Two-Face being the way he is \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201d Hmmm, I think today I\u2019ll practice John Merrick\u2019s \u201cI am not an animal, I am a human being\u201d speech. I wonder where I can find a small burlap sack? \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201d This REALLY sucks!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m going to dig out my old Yamaha keyboard \u2026 Oh look! Phantom of the Opera mask on sale for under ten bucks on Amazon!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201d You know, I actually remember getting the chicken pox when I was a kid \u2026 I remember the part with my parents taking us over to some family friends house where their kid had the pox and exposing us to it \u2026 I remember the little welts \u2026 I remember walking around the house in my whitey-tighty underwear covered in calamine lotion looking like a Pepto-Bismol pink Smurf \u2026 I remember the part with the itching and the fever \u2026 I remember the part with Mom and Dad telling me that now that I got the chicken pox I never have to worry about getting it again \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I DON\u201dT remember is anyone saying that 40 years later I WOULD get the chicken pox again except they don\u2019t call it the chicken pox because it mutates like an Alien zenopmorph into something that causes half your face and scalp to burn and melt off your head \u2026 hmmmm, nope \u2026 don\u2019t remember THAT part \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n

*Heavy Sigh*<\/p>\n

So it has been an eventful couple of weeks \ud83d\ude42 feeling much better now, just a bit weak still from the shingles and the meds.<\/p>\n

I DID get to experience something I hadn\u2019t before at the eye doctor \u2026 he had to check the pressure in my eye so I\u2019m thinking they have the machine that puts a puff of air in your eye and they measure it that way \u2026 but no \u2026 not here.<\/p>\n

He placed a couple drops of yellow fluid on my eye and then takes what looks like a tire pressure gauge with a rubber tip on it \u2026 and then this is the good part \u2026 he places it AGAINST MY EYE AND TRIES TO PUSH MY EYEBALL INTO THE BACK OF MY SKULL !!! \u2026<\/p>\n

Ok \u2026 most people would flinch or blink or scream or something \u2026 me? I just sat there staring at him as he pressed this rubber pen into my eye thinking \u201d this. is. so. freaking. COOL !!!!\u201d \u2026 is there something wrong with me?<\/p>\n

Sandy and I did have a wonderful weekend last week even with the shingles .. we had chartered a boat to do some mackerel fishing and, even though Sandy was worried about me going out and thought about canceling our charter, I said \u201d We are going to go and have fun even if it kills me :-)\u201d \u2026 we didn\u2019t catch any fish but we had a wonderful night on the harbor watching the sunset and it was a good trip .<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s a wrap of my past two weeks \ud83d\ude42 time to get back to work finishing a podcast and doing some more editing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Brightest Blessings \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I\u2019m glad I have a high tolerance for pain \u2026 the reason? \u2026 shingles. the past two weeks have been a small bit of hell for me. I noticed<\/p>\n

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