Talamar’s Blog

It’s been a while…again… I know. But things here were really busy. We spend the whole late April and the fully may this year, to move into our new home and get it fixed before (more or less that is).

Now we’re in since late may and it’s hilarious, fantastic, marvelous, whatever… but now I know why they say: “The own four walls are the best” or “my home is my castle”. I never imagined that I could have had fun, doing garden work and such stuff, before.
fact is, there ist still a lot to do in the condominium and in the garden, but one thinks other about such things when you know it is for your self what you are doing and nt for one other who owns the four walls you are living in. I only can tell everyone: go and try to get your own home… there is nothing better, except own children perhaps (I guess, because I yet have none *g* )

Well, after the move their was the G8-convention in Heiligendamm here in germany, which meant that I had to go on duty for ten days away from home. But we had luck. We not only had almost nothing to do with the demonstrants, no we also had a real good (four stars) holiday reservoire/hotel, in which we stayed during our time in Heiligendamm. It was really good, swimming area, sauna, relaxing and such stuff, and the food was great too, next to the weather.

back at home, there were still things to do in the new home (in fact there are still things to do now), but there is so spare time at the moment. And yet, when I could do something in there, I got an “herpes zoster” (for the germans here it is “Gürtelrose”), which is an extreme painful issue. The nerve-string which runs from my spine around the waist to the belly/navel was infected from the herpes zoster virus. Good luck I went fast to the doc, so the zoster never had a chance to get really big (which could be really dangerous), but it still hurts and the doc says, that it can hurt for several weeks, since the nerves are damaged through the virus. How do one get a “herpes zoster”? It’s easy and it has nothing to do with cleaniness or contagion. the answer is easy: if one had have chickenpox (or varicella) in childhood, one has the virusses still residing and sleeping at his spine. Through some outer circumstance, like stress, extreme hot/cold changeings or sth else, these virusses can be reactivated and then you get a “herpes zoster” instead of chickenpox… really ugly I can tell, escpecially when its warm/hot outside…
But as I said I had luck because I went early to the doc and so the zoster never had a chance to get really big. Now I am retiring from the illness and it#s getting better each day, though the pain is still there, even if it is not so bad as it was at the beginning.

Okay, that’s enough news for now…
I try to write more soon.

Take Care

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• Mood: retiring from herpes zoster
  
• TV-Show: CSI Miami Sesaon 4
  
• Music: The Killers – Move away