WordRiot Clue #1 - Roofing Tiles

I mentioned how un-fun my camping trip was... aside from the dreadful heat and the out-of-control kids, I was also plagued with an excruciating reaction to a whole host of bug bites.

Only they weren't bug bites.

They started itching about a week ago. Before that, I was having weird shooting pains in my side, but I thought it was just some muscle twitching from doing a major clean-up of my house.

I was wrong on both counts.

It appears that I have shingles. AT THIRTY!!

Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes
chickenpox. After you've had chickenpox, the virus lies inactive (dormant) in
your nerves. Years later, the virus may reactivate as shingles. ~ MayoClinic

I know that I whine and complain a lot. But honestly, I have a pretty high pain tolerance. I mean, I had a 9 1/2 pound baby at home, on purpose, for pete's sake!

So when I say "excruciating"? Well, I mean it is the absolute WORST pain I have felt aside from the partially unmedicated root canal I had about 4 years ago (won't terrify you with the details).

And there isn't a whole lot that can be done.

Ibuprofen, topical treatments, time. Maybe. All because it never occurred to me to spend a small fortune to see a doctor for "bug bites."

So when I was hot and miserable and yelling at my kids... perhaps they weren't as bad as I thought and I need to do some apologizing (again).

Thankfully, I'm not exactly contagious unless I'm around someone who has never had CP. And even so, if I keep my skin covered (its on my abdomen so no real problem there) and don't scratch I can go to the Siesta Fiesta without worries. But it might be a little less fun.

Urg.