Jake’s Life

Now that I’m a bit more drugged up and it’s not as excruciating as it was, I’ll post a bit more about this.

For the last few days I had some red spots on my right abdomen. I figured I’d give it a day or two, but when I woke up yesterday it was from my back, to the front, down through the Netherlands, and down my leg. My right side hurt, and I’ve been having some really bad migraines in the morning.

I went to the ER yesterday and the doctor said I had shingles, and a bad case of them too. Basically they usually only stretch from the spine to the side, but this was quite a bit more, and the migraines are caused by the shingles too. He said that they would usually go away within a week, but he was concerned that it would travel up my spine to my face and brain. He gave me anti-virals and Percocet. Usually shingles only happens in older people or those with lowered immune systems. When I asked him about possible causes he asked about my life, and after hearing about my current work situations he settled on that.

Anyway, he said that the anti-virals will make it worse for a day or two before it gets better, and if Sandro’s never had chicken pox to have him go to his doctor because he could have caught it from me.

I’ve got to say, if you don’t know what shingles are, you should read up about them. I have been sitting in bed for two hours in some horrible pain. Everything hurts because it attacks the nerves. If I could wish this on everyone who has done me wrong, we’d be about square.