Shingle Bells

My shingles are actually healing now

It’s been two and a half weeks since my last new post and I’ve been busy sitting on my pity pot. It’s actually somewhat justified since I’ve been recuperating from shingles to my eye, face and head, and the pain has been excruciating. I felt a little better when I was released from the hospital and was well enough to blog about how I was hibernating, but a few days later the pain returned full force.

I started drafting a blog that was paragraph after paragraph of pain and sleep and missed events and how my world had gotten very small.

Boo Hoo. Poor me. Poor me. Pour me another painkiller.

I was too tired to look at Facebook, so I missed a message posted a couple of weeks ago by my friend Amy: “Tonight Gary asked me if you were going to write a song called Shingle Bells for your next blog.”

You can thank Amy & Gary for sparing you my dismal ramblings of recuperation. Instead, here’s a song to the tune of Jingle Bells:

          Shingle Bells

  • Shingle Bells! Shingle Bells!
  • Shingles! Go away!
  • It’s no fun, I have to hide
  • The blisters on my face
  • Shingle Bells! Shingle Bells!
  • Shingles make me pray
  • Take a gun and shoot my eye
  • To take the pain away
  • Gnashing like Van Gogh
  • With a full force of a plague
  • This time to heal is slow
  • I’m crying all the way
  • Yelling from the stings
  • Shaking from my plight
  • It’s no fun to writhe and fling
  • From shingles in my eye

(Repeat)

16 Comments

Filed under Anxiety, Humor, Illness, Recuperating

16 responses to “Shingle Bells

  1. Love it Cathy! Please let me know if you need anything. I have had shingles & feel your pain!

  2. Glad to hear your on the mend cause I miss your blogs and of course I hate to see you havbe been so under the weather xxxx
    Get well Soon xx

  3. Ouch. I had no idea thru were in your and on your face. That has to smart!

  4. LMAO!!! That is AWESOME! You have such a great sense of humor. Glad to see you blogging again.

  5. Glad you’re feeling up to writing. Hang in there!!

  6. I’m so sorry you are still suffering. I really hope you get better soon!!

  7. Definitely on the mend. Thanks.

  8. Anonymous

    So glad to hear you’re feeling better! What an awful experience.

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