Whoa! My posts been referred to as subtle and succinct within a couple of days. Two things I never thought would be associated with me.
Thanks for the feedback, Track. I really value your compliment about creating the circumstances for fresh thought. I can't think of anything I'd be more chuffed with.
I got another laugh out of this thread - I do actually get up earlier than anyone else so I can have a cup of tea in silence (apart from my own laughter, that is).
Thankyou, for recommending I do more research, but I wasn't asking about the causes of zosta, you were.
I was telling you about my family experience.
If you know something different about psychological causes, perhaps you can explain how my dad and sister came to have shingles immediately after being exposed to chicken pox some 15 years apart.
If a child has chicken pox, traditionally all the other kids are taken around to play to pick it up while they are young.
I had a mild infection at the late age of 12 and it was harsh in terms of the 'flu like symptoms. Younger children seem to have less fever and pain associated with chicken pox.
It's not considered life threatening, just bloody miserable. Although loss of sight from shingles blisters is an issue.
My sister had chicken pox as a baby (under the age of one) and shortly thereafter my dad had shingles over half of his face. The blisters on his eyeball lead to virtual blindness in that eye.
I had chicken pox at the age of 12 and shortly afterwards my sister had shingles, the clutches of blisters encircling half of her waist.
My understanding was that shingles could be caught from chicken pox, but only if you had already had chicken pox at least 7 years previously.
My sister was the youngest recorded infection of shingles known in our area.
It attacks the nervous system, indicated by the position of the blisters on one half of the body.
Infection is increased by bursting the blisters - it's jolly hard not to scratch the itchy blighters in your sleep.
It's accompanied by 'flu like symptoms and pain relating to the blistered area. Common areas of blistering are half the face, encircling half the waist or half the groin/thigh area.
I've not been exposed to chicken pox again, despite being a grandmother. I've not had shingles.
The chicken pox and shingles virus is herpes zosta, a variant of the herpes virus.
My understanding comes from nearly 40 years ago, so knowledge may have moved on since then.
Well, that rules out ambush and leaves chasing them to exhaustion, eh?
I once asked my rather shy daughter how she handled starting new colleges and classes. She told me, I pick on some people and follow them around until they like me.
I guess you can get away with that when your cute and likeable.
Sewing buttons on, altering garments without using Wonder Web before bringing the sticky mess to me to sort out whilst expecting the standard charges and the art of never hacking a garment with a pair of scissors followed by the declaration that they've made it easier for me.
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Whoa! My posts been referred to as subtle and succinct within a couple of days. Two things I never thought would be associated with me.Thanks for the feedback, Track. I really value your compliment about creating the circumstances for fresh thought. I can't think of anything I'd be more chuffed with.