[dee]

I totally get the notion of relating everything back through the breast cancer lens. My shingles came on the heels of some serious family stuff - involving the law, my adult child, my personal safety, my home, my past, present and future. Chemo, radiation and Herception after surgery weren't even a distant memory yet. When the symptoms came, marching across my remaining breast, I IMMEDIATELY sought medical advice - SO unlike me. However, I thought I was having a recurrence - noteworthy enough to seek such advice. Everyone ELSE said how lucky I was to be having ONLY shingles. I couldn't help but feel how unlucky NOW to have this, TOO. Shingles suck, especially when we already have been through so much (which is our major ticket to get them in the first place -loads of stress triggering an old latent strain of virus - chickenpox- to resurface in this new and obnoxious fashion. All I can say: What.Next?