[Magdalen] Shingles.

[Jay Weigel]

You can get shingles at any age. My friend's child got them at age 4,
believe it or not. She had chicken pox at 2 1/2 and got shingles at 4 after
a series of other illnesses depleted her immune system. The doctors were
surprised because it's rare to see them in a child that young, but it
happens.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Clarissa Canning <canplum at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My poor daughter at 23 feel like an old person.  She got shingles because
> of high stress on her thighs mostly.  She goes to Uni and works at a deli.
> It got somewhat better now she got the shooting pains coming back. Now she
> has tendinitis in her hand from   repitisious work. The rain doesn't help
> the pains in Vancouver.  She dislike taking traditional meds. Prayers are
> always nice even
> though she not sure she believes. She behaves true to her Christian values.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>