A Tale of Shingles Times Three
Trevor, The Tell Tale Dog, here again to share another adventure in Brenda's life. This week again, for the third time, she experienced an outbreak of shingles. For those of you who have had them, you know how painful they can be. They can also wear on your nerves, which this time they certainly are doing that for Brenda. The first outbreak was the worst, all because she really didn't know what she was facing. By the time she went to the doctor, he was suspecting shingles, but wanted to be absolutely sure what he was dealing with. He popped one, so he could send it to the lab. They were on her right upper thigh and boy did that hurt, when he did that. Three days later the lab test came back positive for you guessed it, Shingles! He had put her on an antibiotic, so she would not experience infection. Since she was on a biologic for her RA, that meant no injection for that week or possibly the next. This was over the 4th of July in 2009. Not really a way to