Bed-rest for a week, I thought before I’d opened my eyes. My nose streamed, my head ached and my throat rasped. I sneezed, coughed and reached for the tissues. A second cold virus in a month. Bummer!
Being eighty years old crept up on me,almost without warning, even though odd misgivings about being so old have plagued me for a few months.
Eighty years old
Someone should write A Seniors’ Guide to Health Care! It should be compulsory reading for everyone. Especially for those of us who are actually seniors. And for people who care about us. And for those who will one day be past the first flush of youth. No such document exists, as far as I can tell. I might have to write it myself.
Row of beds in a medieval hospice-for-the-aged in Baume, France
Zostavax vaccine is now available in Australia. This vaccine helps to prevent the viral illness known as shingles. From November 2016 it will be offered free to people between the ages of 70 and 79. Others can be vaccinated by their general practitioner at their own expense.
I will be be the first in the queue. I’ve had shingles. I don’t want to experience the illness again.
Shingles rash which may be prevented by Zostavax vaccine
