As
an avid runner with a firm belief in all the positive effects of taking
multivitamins and probiotic, I have NEVER expected that I’d be attacked someday
by this weirdly named disease “SHINGLES”. Each time I saw the advertisements or
heard about the warnings/ preventions regarding this disease, I was like
“Shi…what?!”, thinking that it was completely not my business at all. I have
been quietly taking pride in myself being health-savvy,
doing all the well-known good things for body and soul. Daily running, eating
smart and healthy, reading and writing, daily meditation, participating local
running races from time to time, being a good wife and mother, ….etc, etc, etc.
However,
I was way too focused on abiding by all the strict guideposts that I set for
myself to realize that I was too tired by my own limited rule of thumb. Shingles came to me abruptly like a huge bomb
dropped on a placcid land. Pain from a child delivery, severe low back pain,
and this burning sensation caused by Shingles. Yup, Shingles takes the cake when it comes to the
physical pain!
As
described by the South Korean pediatric psychiatrist named Seo, Cheon Seok, we
all learn a precious lesson – whatever it is – from the unexpected pain in the
slaps from life. Even a paladin of healthy life style can go
through power outage inside his/her body out of the blue when the so-called “balance”
of everything in life is broken. I have learned and am still in the process of
learning that everything has a reason for existence, and we need to look back
on our lives from time to time. At some point, maybe we should even shift gears or directions of our lives.
Small Thoughts
on Shingles
By
Jean Lee
Shingles
gave me all those tingles.
They
are no jolly, merry jingles.
When
survived, it’d make you feel as if you’ve hit bingles!
I
have promised myself that I will
try harder to strike a good balance of things in my life, going through this
tunnel of ‘endurance test’ named Shingles.
Expressions
health-savvy: (adjective) experienced, knowledgable, and
well-informed; shrewd about health
rule
of thumb: (noun) a general or
approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as
opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate
to
take the cake: (verb)
to win a prize; to be the winner
paladin: (noun) an advocate of a noble/ great cause
to
shift gears: (verb) to
change modes or suddenly switch what you are doing
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