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According to my ophthalmologist, I am healing quite nicely from my bout with the shingles. My eye is the main annoyance now, as the rest of my face has since scabbed over and began to heal. I’m done taking antivirals, and my eye drops have been reduced from 4 times a day to three.

One thing I will eventually miss from this whole ordeal was my ability to come up with the most asinine responses to the people who looked at my face and asked “What happened?!”

Some of my favorite responses are as follows:

-”I cage fight on the weekends”

-”I was an understudy for Roy Horn”

-”Duuude.. I totally bailed on that Front side nose grind”

If you follow me on twitter or facebook, you would know by now that for the past week, I’ve been suffering from a case of the shingles, a viral disease initially caused by varicella zoster.

I had chicken pox as a child, and the virus remained dormant.

It all started the day after Christmas when my car was sideswiped by a hit and run driver. The same morning I had been awake since 3 am when Joshua was ill with a stomach bug and vomited all over his bed. Needless to say, I was tired and run down. The added headache of police reports and insurance claims turned me into a complete wreck. It was then that I became ill with the same bug that had joshua, and depleted my immune system enough for the virus to come back and get me.

But it did not appear on a part of my body that could be covered with clothes or bandages. It come out on the left side of my face. My forehead and in my eye. This past week I have endured more pain than I ever have in my life, and somehow managed to endure it with alternating doses of Tylenol and Motrin, and half a tablet nightly of Tylenol 3 a friend had left over from some dental work.

Tomorrow I return to the opthamologist to check on the blister in my eye and to decide if I need to continue the anti-viral medication. My Flickr set has some photos of the progression of the disease.