What is on the roof? Shingles. Where else are shingles? For the past few weeks, they were on my back. Several years ago, I had a bout with shingles. I thought this was an illness for old people. Lo and behold, after going to my doctor to have him check out what I thought was a pulled muscle in my back, I learned that I had shingles.
A few weeks ago while walking our dog, I felt a "ping" in my back. I thought it was just a muscle going a bit out of whack. However, the pain got worse. I recalled that when I had shingles many years earlier, I had the exact same type of pain in the exact location. I asked my wife to look on my back to see if she could see a rash. Sure enough, she noticed a red blotch with little pimples on it. Of all of the people that have experience shingles once, I was one of the lucky 4% to get it again.
It was pretty painful for a few days. However, it could have been worse. I could have been one of the more than 10,000 people killed in the recent cyclone. I could have been the abused and captive daughter of the crazy Austrian man. I'll take the shingles - they eventually go away.
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