Ardath Rekha

So around midday yesterday I started feeling quite normal again, and contemplated posting a short "never mind!" post about the shingles. Heh. Last night as I was getting ready for bed, I spotted the first blisters. I so have it again.

Student Health can't squeeze me in until the middle of my second class, so I'm attending my first one, then going over there, and then getting my pills and curling up for a while. I should probably also see about some of my other ailments but the hell with it. One thing at a time. I'll make a non-emergency appointment for those.

I'm on campus but wishing I was curled up in bed. This thing also gives me very strong flu symptoms for a day or two, once it really hits... not the sore throat or any of that stuff, but the fatigue, chills, aches, etc. I can't recall if it gave me a fever last time but I remember feeling like I had one.

BLARGH. I want to be sleeping RIGHT NOW.

I now have my acyclovir, and a referral from the uni doctor to see a rheumatologist. Since only 1% of shingles sufferers have the kinds of multiple-outbreak manifestations I have, she thinks that my arthritis might be triggering them, so I've finally gotten authorization for insurance-approved testing to determine if we're right about it being PA. At last, huzzah! I definitely have some kind, given what's been going on with both of my little fingers for the last several weeks.

I also got my first (and long-coveted) down comforter today, and it's now on my bed just waiting for me to get under it and hide from the 47-degree low we're hitting tonight. That's going to be very cool -- er, warm, I mean, uh... awesome? -- too.

Still setting things up on my new computer, but I'm loving it quite madly and especially loving my new monitor/tv. There will be much fun ahead with it!

Still have a lot of reorganizing to do in my room, but I'm getting there, slowly. And today my mother bought the vacuum cleaner to end all vacuum cleaners. We're going to go on a cleaning rampage. We have it all planned out. THE DUST BUNNY CARNAGE WILL BE EPIC! For God's sake, don't tell PETA.

I still feel a bit bleh, big surprise. I probably will for the next few days. But things are getting a bit better, I think.