Oysters

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Dear Sue,

I am sitting here laughing to myself, thinking how could I have sent a

message that oysters gave me shingles. I must have screwed up badly. I was

talking about Dr. Talpaz and something he told me, but I must have left

something out. He loved to talk about food and I mentioned that I loved

oysters, but would not eat them raw and he told me it was safe for me to eat

oysters. (I think we were all discussing about whether we had conferred with our

doctors about taking the vaccine to see if it was safe.) I was worried about

the infections from bacteria. I am very careful about how I handle seafood and

touch it as little as I can. I have a friend who had a flesh eating bacteria

from touching an ice chest near the sea shore where she had been fishing. They

had to graft flesh from her legs on to her arm, because the doctor ignored her

symptoms. She said she lay in the hospital for 3 weeks, asking to die, it was

so painful. That's what I want to avoid. Sewerage used to be contained in

cesspools and outdoor toilets; now it is sometimes released into seawater, thus

the proliferation of bacteria in our waterways. Now they have found that e.coli

from cesspools are in our water wells and drinking water.

I hope we are on the same page with regard to oysters. I do eat them cooked,

however, my taste for them has never diminished. When I was on INF, that is the

food I craved, because it took the metallic taste away.

Now that you mention it, I was on Gleevec when I was diagnosed with shingles,

but of course we all know people who never used Gleevec who had shingles. What

you say has merit, as so many have voluntered to speak of their own bout with

the virus. Some people have had it more than once. My neighbor who had

lymphoma had a severe case and it never went away, she had it for several years.

I'm sure the great debate will continue as to whether one should get the vaccine

or not, and it is certainly up to each individual. Does it guarantee that you

will not get it, I don't know, maybe someone else has done research on it.

Blessings,

Lottie