[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

   From: Ronald J Kimball <rjk-bostonpm-Sv9uFpfxDRWsTnJN9+BGXg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:57:20 -0400

   34 people came to Tuesday's tech meeting!

I'm afraid I have an unfortunate postscript to add.  I attended the
meeting with a mysterious rash on my chest, which turned out to be
herpes zoster, a.k.a. "shingles":

        http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000858.htm

This is caused by a recurrence of the chickenpox virus.  Fortunately,
herpes zoster patients are much less contagious than chickenpox
patients.  However, adult-onset chickenpox is quite unpleasant, so if
any of the other 33 of you has *not* had chickenpox or been vaccinated
for it, you might want to check out the symptoms of chickenpox:

        http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001592.htm#Symptoms

My profound apologies for the hassle; I hope this is all academic.

                                        -- Bob Rogers
                                           http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/