Tuesday Morning Coffee

Good Morning everyone!
Hope you had a marvelous Monday! What's waking you up on this Tuesday? Black and decaf for me.
Not having a good wake-up as I came down with a case of shingles that are SO painful and it was hard to sleep. Glad not to have to work till Thursday.
QOTD-To get us thinking about New Year's goals-What are you going to do differently next year? I am going to stress out less about things that are out of my hand. Obviously I internalize my stressors to much or I wouldn't have this awful shingles outbreak.
Have a good one!
Deb

Good Morning all,
Deb, are shingles a type of chicken pox?  I hear a lot about them, but many conflicting things.  I hope you're feeling better.

I'm on my way to work now.  Jus****er waking me up.

QOTD-I finally figured out that even though you have a pouch, you can't eat until you are full.  It's like someone gave me the secret clue that I had been missing.  So, after the do-over, I am going to just eat by set amount.   I guess I'm pretty fortunate if my only life-changing goal is related to weight loss!

Hope you all have a great day!

Yes, Brenda, Shingles are the once dormant chicken pox virus that you had as a kid come back to life, again, as shingles..
Deb

Hey Deb,
You may already know this, but there is a drug (I'm so sorry I can't remember the name) that you can take as soon as you feel an outbreak and it will make it less severe.  It's cyclo something....

My son had an outbreak when he was 11 years old...the doc called it Herpes Zoster, not Shingles or Chicken Pox since he did have the chicken pox vaccine.  Anyway, he had one really bad episode where his entire side was one big blister and it hurt.  The next time he felt an episode coming on we called the doc and she gave him the Rx.  It worked great.

Poor kid..he went around telling everyone that he had herpes, and just now is understanding why people were looking at him weird.  He's 15 and is so embarrassed by it!

Sorry about the shingles Deborah, we had a friend that had them last year and he suffered with them also, he found out that he could have had a vaccine for them but nobody had told him that.  I checked into that because I am a wimp but they say you can't get it until you are 60, so that will be my present to myself that year !

I have already had my first cup of coffee, strong and black, am already on to the Protein Hot chocolate. 

QOTD :  I don't normally make any new goals for each year, but am planning on staying on the program for the rest of my life ! 

Good Morning All,

Strawberry protein shake in my cup today. 

QOTD: The only plans for next year is to enjoy myself. 

DEB
shingles are on the rise right now.
Here is a link with a lot of good information
Hope you feel better and this helps.

www.sparkpeople.com/resource/health_a-z_detail.asp

Shingles (Herpes Zoster)

  What Is It?

Shingles, also known as herpes zoster or just zoster, occurs when a virus in nerve cells becomes active again later in life and causes a skin rash.

The virus that causes shingles, the varicella-zoster virus, is the same virus that causes chickenpox. It is a member of the herpes virus family. Once you have had chickenpox, varicella-zoster virus remains in your body's nerve tissues and never really goes away. It is inactive, but it can be reactivated later in life. This causes shingles.

Doctors aren't sure how or why the varicella-zoster virus reactivates, but they believe your immune system's response to the virus weakens over the years after childhood chickenpox. When the virus reactivates, it travels through nerves, often causing a burning or tingling sensation in the affected areas. Two or three days later, when the virus reaches the skin, blisters appear grouped along the affected nerve. The skin may be very sensitive, and you may feel a lot of pain.

If you have had chickenpox, you are at risk of developing shingles. However, the virus doesn't reactivate in everyone who has had chickenpox. Shingles most often appears in people older than 50 and in people with weakened immune systems. If you are having treatment for cancer, for example, you are more likely to get shingles. People with HIV commonly get shingles, which is often one of the first signs that the immune system is in trouble.

Your chances of getting shingles increase as you get older, although the disease can occur at any age. When shingles appears in children, which is uncommon, it usually is very mild. Up to 20% of people in the United States develop the disease at some point.

Potential complications of shingles include:

• Post-herpetic neuralgia — About 10% of adults who get shingles experience long-term pain in the area of skin where blisters occurred, even after the rash has healed completely. This condition may last for months or, very rarely, years. Severe pain is most common in older patients and often is accompanied by extreme sensitivity to heat and cold in the affected area of skin.

• Herpes zoster ophthalmicus — This occurs when shingles involves the eye. Herpes zoster ophthalmicus can affect your vision, even causing blindness, and can be very painful.

• Otic zoster — Also called Ramsay Hunt syndrome or geniculate zoster, otic zoster occurs when shingles affects the ears. It can cause hearing loss.

• Bell's palsy — Shingles can cause Bell's palsy, in which a facial nerve is paralyzed.
  
  QOTD: I will be looking for work. I have been retired for about 2 yrs. now  and  didn't expect to be out of work so long. I took a package in 2008 from the Auto industry.  I am tired of being home when hubby works and the kids do too. Just me and the  crew, dogs and cat. Now that my surgery and the wait to get it is over I can now continue with my life.
  So, Anyone Know of any work positions available for Office type work in the Dearborn, Canton, Plymouth, or close to those areas. available for someone who wants to work a few days a week? Send me a PM If you do.

Thanks for the information, Mary. They certainly are painful..
Deb

It's alright Deb.
FIL just had them in the summer.
do you know that your Grand child can get Chicken pox from you if you are virel.
Atleast that is what I have heard and you get shingles from some kid with chicken pox

Good morning.  I'm having my same old, same old black coffee.  Watching Dub play on the floor.  I may have mentioned this yesterday, don't remember.  Sorry if I repeat, but the little stinker (Dub, that is) walked across his bedroom floor, two days in a row, pushing an empty diaper box.  AJ and I just sat there shaking our heads.  He's too little to be walking!!  I'm hoping he perfects his crawling technique FIRST!!  But he's obsessed with standing up to anything he can pull himself up to.  
These are a few pics I took to make Christmas cards.  Some are too dark, but they are still cute.  








QOTD:  Organize my house!