This poor blogger suffered an attack of shingles on his upper right leg reaching to his hip. At the time these mysterious red (and itchy) spots appeared, the local fishwrap carried a story that an outbreak of bed bug (Cimex lectularius) infestation had occurred here. The poor blogger thought, "Uh, oh. bed bugs!" And the scratching went on along with a nightly search for the telltale traces of bed bug tracks on the bedding. Ultimately, the poor blogger went to a dermatologist. However, a diagnosis of shingles requires a culture of the blister fluid, but the poor blogger had scratched the sores until all that remained were discolorations where the lesions had been. However, stupid he may seem, the poor blogger had received a shingles innoculation a few years back and was assured that he was "protected for life." Au contraire," said the dematologist. Shingles can occur in victims who've been innoculated. If this is (fair & balanced) bed buggery, so be it.
[x This Modern World]
Bedbug Man
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly.
Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002.
When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001.]
Copyright © 2012 Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
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