Not Dead, but not giving up either

I am ending my six months of silence with an important health update. I am not dead!

I am however, trying!

I was feeling miserable last week. I had a very sharp intense pain in my side...as if someone had hit me with a board or something. I tried to get in to see my Doctor but there were no appointments open so I was off to the Minor Emergency Clinic. I was really reluctant to go in but I sucked it up and ended up waiting only about half an hour before I was in an Exam Room. Then I waited about 15 minutes for the Doctor to come in.

I described my symptoms and he asked me to take off my shirt. I had it unbuttoned and opened it to remove it and he said, "Oh! You have Shingles."

Shingles is a remnent of Chicken Pox. If you've had the Pox, you have the Shingles Virus living somewhere in your spine. At some point, it may decide to attack one of your nerves and then, you have shingles.

I was off work all last week. I am at work today but I have a steady dull pain in my side where the board hit me. Being the pussy that I am, it remains to be seen how long I will last at work.