Description
COURT CASE:
- having cytotoxic drug-induced immunosuppression
- having a debilitating disease
- stress
- being immunocompromised
- fatigue
- having poor nutritional status
- having exposure to varicella zoster
- experiencing a reactivation of dormant virus of chicken pox in our physical bodies
- experiencing a reactivation of dormant varicella zoster in our physical bodies
- having chickenpox
- having varicella zoster that lies dormant in our dorsal root ganglia of the sensory cranial and spinal nerves, and then reactivating later in life
- having Hodgkin’s disease
- having herpes zoster
- having shingles
- having an acute viral infection of our nerve structures caused by varicella zoster
- having varicella zoster in our spinal and/or cranial sensory ganglia
- having varicella zoster in our posterior gray matter of our spinal cord
- having localized vesicular skin lesions that are confined to the dermatome
- having chicken pox-like vesicles
- having small, grouped vesicles along our cutaneous sensory nerves that turns into pustules, and then crusts
- having painful blisters
- our blisters popping
- our blisters getting infected
- discomfort
- unrelief
- paresthesia (burning or prickling sensations)
- having unilateral pain that extends horizontally along a dermatome
- pain
- tingling
- burning pain
- acute pain
- severe pain
- severe neurologic pain
- debilitating pain
- being debilitated
- having severe neurologic pain in peripheral areas innervated by nerves arising in the inflamed root ganglia
- anorexia
- edematous skin
- erythema (superficial reddening of the skin, usually in patches as a result of injury or irritation causing dilation of the blood capillaries)
- fever
- headaches
- malaise
- neuralgia
- paresthesia
- pruritus (itchy skin)
- scratching and rubbing our infected areas and spreading it to other areas
- severe deep pain
- long lasting pain
- postherpetic neuralgia
- having unilaterally clustered skin vesicles along peripheral sensory nerves on our trunk, thorax, face, and/or anywhere else on our physical bodies
- having clustered skin vesicles along our cranial nerves-especially on cranial nerve 5 (the trigeminal nerve) or the ophthalmic branch of cranial nerve 5
- having clustered skin vesicles along our ophthalmic branch
- having linear lesions
- having vesicular, unilateral rashes
- having a rash that is erythematous, vesicular, pustular, and/or crusting
- having a rash that lasts 14-21 days
- having pain that lasts longer than 1 month
- having a low grade fever
- being at risk for infections
- impaired skin integrity
- difficulty eating
- difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, and/or getting full REM sleep
- disturbed sleep
- being contagious
- spreading shingles via airborne
- others becoming infected because of us
- unable to work
- unable to go to school
- unable to move around
- having difficulty performing our activities of daily living
- having difficulty taking care of ourselves and/or our children
- the category/kingdom of spirits that cause, contribute to, and/or exacerbate shingles, all of the signs and symptoms associated with shingles, and the pain associated with shingles
