[Magdalen] Shingles update

[Jay Weigel]

I know that feeling, Tony. I keep threatening to tell people I was in a
knife fight. It sounds more interesting than 4 abdominal surgeries. I'm
glad you're home and things are fixed.

I see the eye doc tomorrow and find out if/when I can resume wearing my
contacts. I still don't know when I can see my regular doctor. I could sure
use something to deaden the "residual shingles discomfort". I'm not
sleeping worth a damn.

On Sunday, August 30, 2015, anthony clavier <anthonyfmclavier at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 <javascript:;>> 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:;>
> > <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
>