Thursday, October 15, 2009

OUCH!

Well, no wonder I've been feeling so awful. Tuesday I could stand the pain in my mouth no longer and miraculously got into a dentist. I had a root canal done Tuesday evening....Yes, evening! I walked out of there at 7:30 p.m. in the pouring, record setting rain.

Anyway, I had a bacteria infection in one of my molars. So, in addition to the viral thing going on in my body with Shingles, I also had a bacteria thing happening. No wonder I felt bad.

I have added two more prescriptions to the mini-pharmacy on my desk to fight all of these cooties.

What fun..........NOT! My mouth is now trying to recover from the root canal trauma.

The good news....I've lost 5 lbs!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

What? Another Wordless Month?

I really do have a good reason for the lack of posting.


Honest....


Really....


Wanna see?








This nasty little rash on the back of my right arm is SHINGLES! Yuck! Ouch! And, DOUBLE OUCH!!!!

I've been sick and in pain for 3 weeks with this awful crud which is actually Chicken Pox come back to life a hundred years after the first round. OK, not really a hundred years, but it has been well over 30 years since I had the chicken pox.

The rash covers just a small area, but it's ugly. It itches. It's annoying. But most of all.....it just plain HURTS! And, it hurts well beyond the area of the rash.....like we're talking my whole arm. Plus, it's made me VERY sensitive to light causing HORRIBLE headaches (and I don't usually get headaches). Even the light from my computer screen causes pain....which is a BAD thing considering I'm a "virtual" school teacher. I turned the brightness down on my monitors, but that didn't help much. I had to resort to wearing sunglasses over my reading glasses just to work.

See.....Ain't it pretty? NOT!

What? I'm smiling? Yep, what else can I do? DD says that she doesn't hear me complaining about the pain very much, but what good would it actually do for me to complain. It sure as heck wouldn't make it go away. So, I just smile.......

And, sleep......Well, there isn't much of that happening. The doctor gave me Prednisone for the rash and it's keeping me up. UGH!

Speaking of the doctor.......She says this could go on for a couple of months. A COUPLE OF MONTHS!!!!! It could literally be Thanksgiving or *gasp* Christmas before I'm finished with this mess.

Let me tell you, "There ain't enough Calgon in the world to take me away from all this, but I sure wish there were."