What I've Learned about Shingles...

Here are a few things that I have learned about shingles in the last two weeks:

1. when you get over the chicken pox as a child, the virus lives on your nerve endings, waiting for you to be an adult.

2. it's not an 80 year old person disease...anyone can get it, who is of the adult age.

3. it's the most painful thing i have ever experienced, it has to do with it living on your nerve endings. 

4. it takes more than two weeks for it to go away- as of day 16 the last of it is scabbing

5. the medicine you take causes more pain, as it gives you a severe headache

6. the doctor at the walk in in Bristol,RI has NO bedside manner, he likes to use words like determental, horrible, terrible, melted cornea...all before explaining to you what it is you have.

7. the walk in in Bristol, RI also sends you an extra bill after you have paid the bill in full at time of service

8. you typically don't get shingles in your eyes if it starts in your scalp and forehead....you can get it in your eyes if you get it on your nose and cheek area.

9. the eye doctor knows what's best for your eyes, don't question him

10. my real doctor in Endicott, NY has wonderful bedside manner and made it all feel better....the RI guy should take some lessons

it's official

so, on friday night, i officially became the president of neacuho...it's a little crazy to believe....

my dad, lesley, marney, michele, elise, and melinda all came in for my speech....julie, scott, casey, kim, and jana were already there....i spent the week nervous and wondering what i had gotten myself into....in this role, lots of people want to tell me how to do things, what the organization needs, and anything else i will listen to....the politics of it all, is amazing, but it will be a great lesson for me as the year goes on....

my nerves caused me to break out in a rash...one that ignored most of the week, until on saturday morning when it had spread to my eyelid....that's when my friends told me i had to go to the walk in....the doctor there was bad and mean...but i learned i had shingles.....something that i assumed most people get when they are much older...for me it was stressed induced....my doctor has since told me that it's normal and stress related.....

i have started my president's blog, if you are interested in reading that....www.neacuhoprez1.blogspot.com....