How are you, Janie?

I think back to two weeks ago. That was the day that I felt awful and ended up throwing up.

So, here I am, shingles and all, feeling better than that.

However, whenever someone asks how I am doing and I say anything better than or equal to OK, the research manager looks at me like I am crazy. So, I guess that I am not feeling ok.

I have had a lot of sympathy for my shingles challenge and a lot of advice as to how to deal with it.

Here are the top five tips:

Retail therapy
Lie in the dark and take pain pills like M & M's
Epsom Salt soaks
Compresses
Hire a good roofer

So far, I have been toughing it out with Advil when I go to bed. That seems to work. Apparently, the Valtrex will likely yield some benefit in the next day or so.

I remember when both Janie Blair and I got chicken pox just at the end of grade three, Wouldn't it be crazy if she just got shingles also.

In my world, anything is possible!