It's been a rough few days for me, not the way I had planned on starting the new year....but things are looking up..this is just a brief capsule of the last week...
On Friday the 31st, after a week of thinking I had a stressed out muscle in my neck/shoulder I progressively got worse. (started on Christmas eve but very mild)...The last two days the burning pain and ache had been awful. Then when I was getting ready to go to the breakfast get together on Thursday I noticed a cluster of bumps (pimples) on the back of my neck right under my hair line..itchy and sore at the same time..then during the day they seemed to multiply..the pain got worse and by that night it was rough sleeping..so Friday morning I went to the doctor and got the diagnosis...shingles!! Not what I wanted to hear..so he put me on antiviral pills, steroids and pain pills..I didn't think I'd need the pain pills but the ibuprofen definitely wasn't cutting it so I broke down and took a pain pill and it does help..doesn't take the burning and the pain completely away but it's better!!
As the weekend and then the first of this week has come and gone the rash is better but I am still having quite a bit of pain in the neck/shoulder so that is why my blog has suffered. Not much energy to do anything...have played games on the computer but that's about it!! LOL
Our New years eve got canceled, we had planned on spending it at the New years eve party at church..then on New Year's our daughter and son came over and we watched bowl games together and had a nice afternoon..the rest of the time it's just been me and hubby. I'll be back when I get more energy and tell you all about the wonderful Christmas we had!! What a wonderful family we have!!
Be blessed and will be back when this virus gets out of my system a bit more!! Hope this wasn't too much information!!
Decided to share a couple Christmas pictures...so here goes...
The new tv our 5 children and their families went together and gave us for Christmas..Can you say SURPRISED?!?!?!
One of our granddaughter Morgan and my hubby working on their gingerbread house for the yearly contest!!
Great granddaughter Lily...loved those presents!!
Had a wonderful day!! More pics to come later..
Have a wonderful New Year!!
1 comment:
Hi Alice! So sorry you have been dealing with shingles. I hear they are very painful. What a great Christmas gift from your kids! Your tree is beautiful. ((Hugs & Blessings))
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