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[microchick]

Superchemicalgirl I just got this picture of a person running screaming down a road with 450,000 guineas chasing after her.......

Alaskan, my dad's rash was on his back and curled under his arm all the way to his sternum. Some of his blisters were as big as saucers. Mine was just a fine rash peppered over my butt cheek and up my bac to my waistline. It was pretty miserable but not as bad as Dads was. You were very, very lucky.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Does she get off to eat or drink?

Yes, faithfully once a day to eat, drink and drop a giant stinking turd. Oh and to allow the other productive biddies to deposit more eggs on her nest.

 

[microchick]

It is wasn't so serious it would be funny, oh never mind.....

 

[Alaskan]

Superchemicalgirl I just got this picture of a person running screaming down a road with 450,000 guineas chasing after her.......

Alaskan, my dad's rash was on his back and curled under his arm all the way to his sternum. Some of his blisters were as big as saucers. Mine was just a fine rash peppered over my butt cheek and up my bac to my waistline. It was pretty miserable but not as bad as Dads was. You were very, very lucky.

That was what they kept telling me...which is why they decided to razor blade me. They said the pain/itching wasn't bad enough. My area sounds like what your dad had...but most of my blisters were small, not much bigger than a quarter and then smaller. Can't imagine that entire area being covered in saucer sized sores.... there would be no leftover skin.

 

[chickisoup]

Chiming in as well;
Shingles-first time @ age 55 (reason the CML diagnosis was missed until 6 months and enormous spleen later), got the vaccine, 2 nd round with shingles 5 yrs later, 3 rd round last winter.
Fortunately none were terrible. An old friend of mine, one round of shingles, in the spine, so bad she wound up on morphine patches last I knew she was still suffering years later.

 

[Alaskan]

Time for a public service announcement:


Skin.


I like skin.

I prefer skin to be intact, solid, and fulfilling its function of awesomeness.


Skin.

Intact skin.


Yep... I am old enough that I have many, achem, "skin failures". And I didn't like them I tell you!

I once sat and watched while the skin on the back of my hand split open in giant fisures. Not nice, not pleasant. Didn't feel great either.

I have had sores and wounds and such. I have gotten to say "what a nice color of bone I have there".

But intact skin is BEST!

 

[microchick]

Oh yeah, intact skin is the greatest. I've had my share of rashes, burns (worst being when I dropped a soldering iron in my lap while sitting cross legged on the floor) stitches, lacerations and general ouchies. None of them are pleasant.

My dad's mega shingles rash actually healed very nicely and yes, he loss a lot of skin. The weird thing was, and yes I had it too, it looked as though somebody had painted the rash area blue/gray. Mine faded after a time but he kept some of his.

Chickisoup. 3 bouts of shingles?

 

[Spookwriter]

Spook has decided he likes all his parts and pieces not "doctored on".

My one and only operation, and it HURT.

Two months today and I'm still not all healed back to normal.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Welcome have not sure I had the pleasure before spookwriter sorry your surgery did not heal
well

 

[Spookwriter]

I guess I'm actually healing well.

Never been operated on before, so I don't know how it works.

But I'm alive so I must be healing.

But they cut my sheet...shreaded it. And it isn't easy getting a sheet
broke in. Hard to get the eyes just right.