[Magdalen] Shingles update

[anthony clavier]

I had shingles in 2000. It was on my face. I still feel numb on the left of
my mouth. I have to take neurontin for the neuropathy in my feet ad hands
caused by chemo. It deadens any residual shingles discomfort.

I arrived home yesterday after overTwo days in hospital following procedure
to fix a hernia. I have so many holes in my body I look as if I was at the
OK Corral.

Tony

On Sunday, August 30, 2015, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Itching is an absolutely horrible thing.  It can drive you nuts, and of
> course you can injure yourself if you don't have superb self-control.
>
> I really, really hope and pray your problem abates, and that dannned
> quickly!
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Well, the scaliness and any bumps and blisters have abated, so I look
> like
> > I never had shingles at all. My eye *feels* okay, except that it waters
> now
> > and then, which has more to do with the fact that I blink a lot because
> my
> > eyelid itches. The itching, now, THAT is the problem. Seems I now have
> > post-herpetic neuralgia, or something. I don't know, that's the best I
> can
> > come up with because I can't get in to see my doctor; I've called and
> > "Sorry, we don't have anything until sometime late next week. If it's
> > urgent you need to go to the ER." (Forgive the language, but scr** that.)
> > When the area isn't itching, there's kind of a creepy-crawly feeling, or
> > the rest of the time the feeling you get when your foot's been asleep and
> > it's "waking up". And the headache, which isn't too bad most of the time,
> > just kind of *there*. Where it's been now for 3 weeks. I'm really,
> > seriously over it all. Boy, am I over it.
> >
> > Sorry for the whine.
> >
>


-- 
The Rev. Tony Clavier
Vicar: St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Glen Carbon IL
and St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Granite City IL