If you didn't know for sure what a case of shingles looks like, now you do.
The doctor I saw Friday morning said it's a pretty classic case. A shingles rash typically affects a specific dermatome, or an area of skin supplied by nerves from the dorsal root of any given spinal nerve. In my case pictured here, it's the thoracic nerves that sprout from my spine and wrap around to the front of my torso. (That's my totally non-expert understanding, anyway.) I took this picture in my bathroom mirror, so that's the right side of my torso even though it looks like my left. According to the Wikipedia page on shingles, a rash usually follows "a stripe or belt-like pattern that is limited to one side of the body and does not cross the midline."
So, how long will I have to deal with this? The prevailing answer is "it just takes time." While I really, really want it to go away, I'm also grateful that as of this writing, at least, it hasn't been as painful as I've heard it can be. So far it's amounted to not much more than an annoyance, and I'm more or less living life.
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