{"id":7685,"date":"2012-09-17T19:54:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2012-09-17T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:54:43","slug":"what-ive-been-feeling-like-a-picture-is-worth-1000-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/17\/what-ive-been-feeling-like-a-picture-is-worth-1000-words\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve been feeling like: A picture is worth 1,000 words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As those of you who&#8217;ve been following me on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scottedelman\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scott.edelman\">Facebook<\/a> already know, I was diagnosed with Shingles on Friday, after having had sore muscles since Monday and a rash since Wednesday. I&#8217;ve been taking the antiviral medication Famciclovir since Friday afternoon, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped me from feeling &#8230; like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Alienchestburster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Alienchestburster-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Alienchestburster\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Alienchestburster-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Alienchestburster.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, absent the blood and the alien creature eating its way out through my stomach. <\/p>\n<p>Still,  what I <em>have<\/em> been feeling is a strange abdominal pain unlike any I&#8217;ve ever felt before, as if a fist is opening and closing inside me, with muscles cramping and spasming and uncramping and warring against each other in ways they never have before. So much so that I occasionally peer down and wonder what the heck is going on in there.<\/p>\n<p>Several female friends have reported to me that their Shingles pain was so great it exceeded the pain of childbirth, and I am so not looking forward to my case developing in that direction. From what I&#8217;ve read, the fact I started on meds within three days of the first appearance of the rash means I&#8217;ve got a good shot at it not progressing that far, though my doctor&#8217;s anecdote that the only time he ever saw his grandfather cry was from Shingles doesn&#8217;t give me that warm fuzzy feeling inside.<\/p>\n<p>Only a feeling of something trying to chew itself out.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As those of you who&#8217;ve been following me on Twitter and Facebook already know, I was diagnosed with Shingles on Friday, after having had sore muscles since Monday and a rash since Wednesday. I&#8217;ve been taking the antiviral medication Famciclovir since Friday afternoon, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped me from feeling &#8230; like this. Well, absent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[237,238],"class_list":["post-7685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alien","tag-shingles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}