One of the best outcomes from lockdown was that I went for nearly two years without a single illness - not even a cold. Unfortunately, my lucky spell came to an end last week. I had always thought that shingles was just an itchy rash that very old people got on their tummies. Not so. It turns out that if someone gets really stressed - say, for example, because their wage bill has doubled and they are halfway through building an expensive new factory during a once-in-a-lifetime inflation crisis - theycan actually get it in their eye, ear and head, even though I, sorry, "they", are still only in their 40s.
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