https://sundayeveningreview.com/categories/preventive-care/Recent content in Preventive Care on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usThu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/health/fall-vaccines-after-sixty/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/health/fall-vaccines-after-sixty/<p>The woman was sixty-eight years old and had come in for something routine. A minor procedure, the kind that should have kept her overnight and sent her home the next morning with a folder of printed instructions. What kept her three weeks was shingles.</p> <p>It started the second night: a rash across her left ribcage, burning. By morning it was blistering. By afternoon she was on IV pain medication and the medical team was explaining postherpetic neuralgia, the nerve pain that can follow a shingles outbreak for months, sometimes years, sometimes the rest of your life. I was eight years into nursing at that point. I had seen shingles before. I had not watched it arrive on top of an already compromised immune system and settle in quite like that. She went home eventually. Her daughter called me two months later. She still couldn&rsquo;t wear anything that pressed against her torso.</p>