A trip to the doctor's office.........

If you're a regular reader, you know our doctor's office is over an hour's drive away from where we live.  However hubby needed to go and so I made an appointment for both of us.

The reason I needed to see him was to get a prescription for a Shingles vaccination.  I have had shingles three times in my life, the last time being a year ago.  However, I have never seen our family doctor regarding this.

The first time was when I was 20 and had shingles when I gave birth to our son.  The second time was in the Fall of 2022, and the third time was in the Spring of 2023.  When I explained this to our doctor, he actually asked me if I was sure if I had, had shingles!!  How could three doctors be wrong!!!!

Anyhow I got my prescription and went to our pharmacy by our home.  Thankfully our insurance covered the cost of the vaccination, which was $165; but had to pay $15 out of pocket for the pharmacist to administer the injection.  It will cost another $165 for the second one in October and $15 for the pharmacist to administer the injection.

Have any of you had the shingles vaccination?  

Seriously!!!

If we didn't have bad luck we would have no luck at all.

This past six months it has been one thing after another within the family and it's all starting to catch up on me.  Why?  Well I now have shingles..........

Luckily this is not the first time I have had shingles, so I sort of know what's what with it.  The last time I had shingles was the beginning of April, 1984.  Right before I gave birth to our son.  Caused quite a kerfuffle, as it's not something they saw in the birthing unit every day.  Add into the fact it was right around my body where my bra strap would have been and they weren't even sure if I could breast feed our son or not.

It's in the same place as last time, and so far like last time, it's not painful but awfully itchy.  So on Friday I had to drive down to our doctors office to have someone look at it so I could get some antibiotics. 

The cause of this is probably stress.  I am still coughing and bringing up phlegm. Oh well onwards and upwards as they say (((SIGH)))