A La Carte (06/27)

  • Tim Challies
  • 06/27/06
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Tuesday June 27, 2006

Humor: A reader named Russell sent me the link to a neat little audio file that plays a composition made only with sound effects included with Windows. You’ll need Flash to play it.

Blog: Adrian Warnock has closed the doors on his blog for a few days after coming down with shingles. I had to look it up. It is apparently “the reactivation of varicella zoster virus, leading to a crop of painful blisters over the area of a dermatome. It occurs very rarely in children and adults, but its incidence is high in the elderly (over 60), as well as in any age group of immunocompromised patients” It doesn’t sound particularly nice.

Family: Lisa discusses a difficult and painful issue: whether or not parents can “divorce” their adopted children.

Review: Paul has a largely positive review of Ligon Duncan and Susan Hunt’s book “Women’s Ministry in the Local Church.”

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a comment from mpethe • 06/27 @ 8:50am

I had shingles last year (at age 28) covering one side of my face and head … basically it’s chicken pox revisited … just replace the itching symptom with equally as intense pain. not particularly nice indeed.

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a comment from wfseube • 06/27 @ 10:53am
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I can’t speak first-hand on shingles, but my 13-yr-old son had it a couple of months ago. It showed up in him as a large band of blisters and redness from his chest, wrapping around one side to the middle of his back. His started as a complaint that his back was hurting badly (inside, not outside). Then the rash appeared, then the blisters. Then, one day he suffered from a very high fever (104+) and was basically in bed for two days. After that, it pretty much passed. It took about 2-3 weeks for the rash to disappear. I think he had it a little less severely than adults get it.

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a comment from DLE • 06/27 @ 1:08pm
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Shingles isn’t just for old people. Any stressful time can bring it on in younger people. Of course, you’ve had to have had chickenpox first, but that and a tough time in life can cause it to erupt.

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a comment from wfseube • 06/27 @ 8:22pm
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Right, Dan. In fact, my son had chicken pox many years ago, but he only had like two pox (plus some of the other symptoms, and he had it right after my other son, who had a terrible case). So the Dr. seemed to believe that his relatively mild case contributed to him getting shingles.