A red spot on Laarni's face quickly spread into an intense, painful rash. After a visit to urgent care, she was diagnosed w/ shingles. Read about the vaccine that could have prevented it & her journey to healing:
patients was the most fulfilling work of my career. But it was also stressful. Even I — someone who feels her best at her busiest — must admit that my job was intense.
By the time I got off the plane, I had a full-fledged breakout all over the left side of my face. The blemishes were blistering by then, and they were painful. My face was inflamed. I looked like a prizefighter after a beating.Shingles? That was absurd. Shingles, I believed, only affected elderly people — and I was only 53 years old.
Once the blisters scabbed up, my doctors decided I was good to go and we went straight to the airport to head back home. I never even opened my luggage. This certainly hadn’t been the vacation of my dreams, but I have to say that I received excellent medical care and feel extremely fortunate to have had access to it.
I’m not a vain person, but I’ve always had clear skin and was pretty happy about that. But now I was embarrassed to show my face on video calls, and because my skin was still inflamed, I didn’t want to put on makeup and potentially worsen anything.
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