SHINGLES....and not on the house ;(

I am SICK.....I have Shingles...one of the most painful things I've ever had!...and it goes on for at least 5 weeks.
I'm almost up to the beginning of week 3....
I was talking with a friend this last Monday. She made the mistake of asking how I was...so I told her the symptoms of what I had. She asked if I had had chicken pox when I was a child....well, Yes...didn't everyone in my generation?
She said, "OH MY GOD Sheila...you have Shingles...Google it"....and sure enough she was right.
It feels like a combination of a really bad sun burn...poison oak
with the nerve endings jumping around, zapping me. It's VERY painful and makes it almost impossible to get a nights sleep.

It is a band around my right side from my spine to my breast bone and covers about 6".
It only happens in people who have had chicken pox. It waits in the nerve endings and when someone get to be....well.....my age. Is stressed and then happens around a child with chicken pox it remembers and gets those puppies into full gear!

I went to the Dr (an incredible woman in Drain).....she asked me why I was there and I hiked up my sweater and she said, "Oh, I see". I have a pretty bad case of it....Yeah!
She gave me meds....ahhhh.....3 kinds...one is a nerve calming med (which for 5 days makes you act like you are drunk....after 20+ years of being sober that ought to be interesting)
one is an antiviral.....and then Vicodin for the pain.
I go to see her again in a week.
The meds are working already....the pain has lessened but I am a Zombie! DAMN!
I had to look up words like poison...and combination so I could write the blog. My brain is definitely on drugs!
I have been spinning...trying to learn how to do it right....getting help from my friend LisaSouza ! Thanks!
Today, not so much.............mostly I have been sleeping..........but I did do the dishes and threw in a load of wash....Hey that's progress for me!