[Magdalen] Shingles.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Jay, I got my shingles shot at Walgreen's, and with Medicare it was very inexpensive. I think most insurance plans cover it now.

I had shingles in my eye, and I don't want to take the chance of EVER getting them again! That was a scary time.

> On Oct 30, 2014, at 10:51 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've had shingles and don't want them again, but the expense is holding me
> back.
> A good friend is just recovering from a lulu of a case, though, so I guess
> I'm going to have to bite the bullet.
> 
>> On Thursday, October 30, 2014, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I got my shingles vaccine at my pharmacy last year at the same time as my
>> annual flu shot. Flu in one arm and zoster in the other. I had the
>> chickenpox when I was 12 or 13, caught it from my father who had shingles
>> so I've known about the connection since then.
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I discovered the local Rite Aid Pharmacy was giving the  shingles/zoster
>>> vaccination.  As with the flu shot, no appointment was necessary, and  I
>>> presented myself and my insurance card this morning.  Good thing that  I
>>> had
>>> coverage, because I noticed that the real cost of the vaccination was
>>> something
>>> like $250.  I paid nothing.
>>> 
>>> The attendant at the desk presented me initially with a two page, fairly
>>> detailed
>>> health inventory before the injection.  It was completely in  Spanish.
>>> Luckily,
>>> I could read enough Spanish to complete the form without any comment.
>>> Has it come to this, I thought, that one has to specially request an
>>> English
>>> form?
>>> 
>>> The nurse giving the injection came out of her office all embarrassed
>>> because
>>> of the mix-up.  I obviously do not look Hispanic!  In any case  the deed
>>> was
>>> done, and I went on my way, stopping on the way home at Dunkin Donuts
>>> for a breakfast sandwich and their "gourmet" coffee.
>>> 
>>> I remember quite vividly developing the characteristic generalized rash
>> of
>>> chickenpox when I was a junior in high school.  It was in the middle  of
>>> a periodic epidemic so that figuring out what was going on was not
>>> difficult.
>>> I think I stayed home a week, and the village health officials came by
>> to
>>> mount the contagion notice on our front door.  My younger brother had
>>> chickenpox at the same time.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David Strang.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Christopher Hart
>> 
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