Week 19 - I have WHAT?

August 2 - The week started out with me making a comment to Dave Sunday night about how I just broke out with a ton of pimples on the top left side of my forehead. They had just started appearing within the last two-three hours. Dave and I laughed and went to bed. I woke of the next moring and looked in the mirror hoping all the zits had disappeared. Nope still there, so got up got ready and went to work. very happy that least no more had appeared. At about 10 o'clock my eye really starts bothering me so I look in the mirror and see this large blister looking thing right on the edged of my eyelid. Great more pimples, pissed, I wash my face and go back in to my office. My coworker Bridget and I start talking about it and she says she thinks it looks like a rash. I say should I go down to employee health since I work with patients. Bridget says I would. So off I go. I sit down there for about 15 mins. the whole time our fire alarm at work is going off. Now I have pimples and a headache. So I go in to get looked at and tell the lady
Cheryl: I'm sure its just pimples but I'm pregnant and just wanted to make sure these bumps if not pimples wouldn't hurt patients.

Employee Health Lady: (looks at my face not me and says) "well it not pimples it looks like Shingles, I'm 99% sure its shingles. So when did they start?"

Cheryl: last night but the one on my eye just popped up in the last 3 hours. <
Employee Heath Lady: Does it hurt?
Cheryl: No
Employee Health Lady: Are you sure, it doesn't hurt?

Cheryl: "Yes, Am I sure that it doesn't hurt."
Employee Health Lady: "Have you had any vision change?"
Cheryl: "yes but I was just at the eye doctor last week and have my new glasses and contacts. No more painful headaches and I'm fine."

So she says well I'm sending you out for a second opinion across the street to the Ophthalmologist. I said OK that my eye doctors office. So she get on the phone tells them "she thinks I have shingles that appeared to be along the trigeminal nerve and is sending me over at 1:00." I go up to my boss and say guess what? Told her the story and she asks does it hurt? NO. I thought it was pimples. So she gives me to OK and across the street I go. The girl at the eye doctor checks my vision and then tell me she needs to check the pressure in my eye. OK I say. Do I need to take my contacts out? No, she says not yet I'll tell you. So she leaves the room for a moment comes back and puts some drops in my eyes has me get line up with her machine and I feel a really funky feeling in my eyes. It almost hurt. She finishes and we go to another room. Doctor comes in goes.

Ophthalmologist: "Yup I would have to agree. Looks like you have Shingles but you are not 60 so I need to call your OB and check some things."

Cheryl: "OK."

Ophthalmologist: "Does it hurt?"

Cheryl: "No

Ophthalmologist: "While I'm calling your OB I'll have (don't remember her name) test your pressure. Wait... says here she did. You have your contacts in right?"

Cheryl: "Yup"

Ophthalmologist: "Did you put them back in?"

Cheryl: "NO"

Ophthalmologist shakes is head we will have to check pressure again. Oops no wonder my eye hurt on that last test. She was poking my eyes and the drops that are meant to numb a person eyes were block because of my contacts. Doctor comes in and says my OB wants to see me right a way so I go back to work tell my boss the new news and head off to the OB. Dr Gracia, on call for my doctor looks at me and say wow. Does it hurt? NO. Wondering if another person asked me if it hurts if my head would spin backwards and fly off. None of the doctors today have made eye contact with my they just stare at the bumps on my head. He says I have Shingles and writes me an Rx. Off to the pharmacy I go as directed. By now the work day is over. I'm tired and cranky and it's only Monday. The Acyclovir Capsules the doctor prescribed for me make me really nauseous but I only had to take them for a week every 4 hours. The rest of the week was really kind of easy. At my OB appointment on the 5Th Dr. Klose was happy to see the shingles have already started to disappear and told me not to worry as Dave and I both read that it can cause birth defects. Good news for us. I was also very thankful that I didn't have extreme pain assoicated with my Shingles.