DH is a lymphoma survivor. Five months after his bone marrow transplant in 1991, while his immune system was still compromised, he came down with shingles. He got it on both his trunk and face. It moved very quickly, especially on his face, and before it could be controlled, it had destroyed the optic nerve in his left eye leaving him blind in that eye. The pain was horrible and he had to be hospitalized and put on morphine several times. The scarring on his face from the blisters messed up his tear duct, so he has to wear a patch on his eye at all times to keep his eye from drying out. Looking back, he has said that shingles was far worse than any cancer treatment (chemo, radiation, BMT) that he went through. Very scary disease, shingles. Be careful, Biker Jo.