The self-care delusion.

Wake-Up Call #19

This time, last year, I was in a lot of pain.

I kept it private. Even though the evidence was visible in the early days.

Shingles. Wrapped around the left side of my face and head, even on my eyelid. Thankfully, not inside my eye. Ended up in the emergency room.

It was brutal. Not so much the rash, that was mercifully mild. But the nerve pain and hyper-…