More adventure this week with John being diagnosed with Shingles!! Good grief.....I do wonder what is in store for us in the future!!
I got off a night shift, has a quick sleep and hauled him into the clinic in Spirtwood where we got the diagnosis and a prescription for an antiviral. Hopefully we got it in time and there will be limited or no side effects from them.
Unfortunately they were on his head and forehead and headed towards his nose and eye. That is NOT a good place to get them. Well, there is really no "good" place to get them but the face is really bad for fear that they break out in your eyeball and attack your vision.
We left with clear instructions that if the lesions proceeded to his eyebrow and below, we were to get back into the clinic as this was considered an emergeny and he would need to be seen by and opthamologist immediatly in order to treat any damage that may occur and consequently damage his vision.
The following day found us back at the clinic when his eye was checked out (no lesions seen) but it was probably a good idea to have an opthamologist check it out just ot make sure.
Now we have a very dear friend who unfortunately got shingle lesions in her eye and she had terrible pain and vision problems so both John and I knew how she suffered and neither of us were planning on going down that road if we could help it.
Soooo...... off to Saskatoon we went to see Dr. Ravi (the opthamologist) and have his eye checked out. It checked out well so we were both glad of that!!
I guess we got on top of the shingles virus fast enough and for that we are both thankful. As far as the shingles vaccine goes, John is not able to get it until 1 year after an outbreak and I am scheduled to have it before leaving for Arizona!! Life is Good.....
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