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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Rudi Vari</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:comflair@iafrica.com">comflair@iafrica.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Members' news" 2008.10.17 (04)
[E/German]</span><br>
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Hallo Reinhard<br>
<br>
I was just catching up with my email backlog, so this message is probably late.
<br>
<br>
Reinhard, I am so sorry to hear about your ill health. I wish you all the best
and a speedy recovery. I know what you feel.<br>
<br>
Kind regards<br>
Rudi Vari<br>
<br>
From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Just
back from 16 hours in a hospital emergency room, filled with numerous tests and
morphene refuge after several days' of a unbelievable pain in the neck (and
head) and completely sleepless nights (in Seattle). After two incorrect ones,
the correct diagnosis arrived less than one hour before the visible tell-tale
signs of an extreme form of shingles (<i>Herpes zoster, gordelroos, Gördelroos',
Gürtelrose, helvedesild, zona, culebrilla, cobrão, cobreiro, półpasiec,
опоясывающий лишай</i>, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" lang="ZH-CN">帯状疱疹</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">), the evil twin of chickenpocks.
Oh, the pain! Oh, the misery! Oh, the humanity!</span></span></p>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Members' news<br>
<br>
Thanks you so much, Rudi, also those of you who have been inquiring via private
mail! It really means a lot to me.<br>
<br>
I am making progress toward recovery. But truth be told: I still have a good
bit of residual pain, and in extreme cases like mine this may well continue for
weeks and even months. (It's not a skin issue but a deep muscle pain that also
causes headaches.) It goes on my nerves and still affects my sleep. But it is
getting better slowly.<br>
<br>
Since it's the second time I had this and I know it runs rampant in the
Sorbian-descent branch of my family, I'll probably get vaccinated against it
(which is approved in the US).
But I will have to wait until I'm perfectly well, because some people get
terribly sick from it if they do it too soon after a bout.<br>
<br>
Best wishes to all of you.<br>
<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
<br>
P.S.: All of you US Lowlanders,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> if you have not already done so</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">, please make sure you go out and vote by
tomorrow evening!</span></p>