My shingles rash has been showing signs of healing all week, though the progress has been very, very slow. What were once a bunch of pus-filled hives have dried up and scabbed over, and now I'm waiting as patiently as I can for them to fade away and be replaced by healthy skin, so that I might happily forget they were ever there.
As for pain, it's been mild compared to what I've heard shingles inflicts on many other people. But I do have one spot, in my lower right ribcage area, that's been bothering me for days. If this pain were just a little more intense, and covered just a little bit more area of my body, I would probably be flat-out miserable. Apparently some cases of shingles have symptoms that linger indefinitely, and I hope this painful spot isn't going to be like that for me.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to allow myself some downtime from athletic pursuits. But my trip to South Africa is just a little over three months away, and that's not that far off in the future. Right now it's hard to imagine myself in the kind of form I want to be in when I'm laying down frequent hard sprints in pursuit of those Miller's Run swells.
This past week I've paddled Tuesday, yesterday, and today. I've kept the intensity fairly low, although I've allowed myself to try some barge wake surfing whenever that opportunity presents itself. But the vessels I've seen haven't been producing very good waves, and I wonder if that's because of the low water. The towboats are pushing fewer barges right now, and they might not be running their engines at full throttle with milder current to fight. Both Tuesday and today there were rigs coming upriver that I went out and tried to surf, shingles and all, but the surfing turned out to be not much good.
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