Three months after a benign bump was removed from my left parotid gland. I believe the stress on my immune system caused the shingle outbreak. Shingles It’s been a bad year for me, or I should say the left side of my face and head. In April, I had the operation to remove a benign bump on the left side of my face, but they had to peel my face back to do it so the nerves wouldn’t be damaged. Then, my face swelled up for three months. In August, I began to feel better and my face had pretty much returned to normal. On August 30, I had a headache that wouldn’t go away on the left side of my head and felt like I had a sty forming on my left eye or like I had something under the lid. (I never get headaches and I’ve never had a sty come out .) Two days later, my left eyeball was bright red, my left forehead and scalp burned like a real bad sunburn when I touched it, and I had clusters of blisters on my left forehead and all through the left side of my scalp. I
My fiction, life in general, and war, with some pics from my Marine days in Vietnam.