Thursday, November 02, 2000

No doubt about it: I'm in a personal level of Hell right now.

I learned from a doctor yesterday that a rash and itch I've felt since the past weekend comes from Shingles. At a much younger age then folks usually get it, and I 'lucked out'.

If you don't know what Shingles is: remember getting chicken pox as a child? Me too; like many, I had 'em then. Shingles is the adult version that comes to some of us who had it already.

You'd think that, having years to learn more self-control, you could handle it; not so. I have to keep chanting the mantra of "Don't scratch that itch. Don't scratch that itch..."