: About Me

Hello and welcome to my bio !
I love my writing and am in the middle of my second fiction book. My background is nursing and midwifery so I tend to write about what I know.
Many of my experiences in my working life can lend themselves to fiction writing, whether it be humour or crime !
My aim is to be living in Crete, Greece within the next few years. I will be writing my books in the sunshine, trying not to be distracted by the beautiful views there !

My passion is ...

Writing and Crete, Greece

I know too much about ...

Nursing

My parents always told me ...

With freedom comes responsibility

My childhood ambition ...

To be a Doctor

My favorite memory ...

childhood holidays at the sea side

Why I write ...

I feel alive when I write. I have so many ideas its best to get them down on paper to save my mind being too cluttered !

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Everything !

My first job ...

In a chemist shop

My best moment ...

My wedding last year

My inspiration ...

My husband is my inspiration, he gives me the freedom to be myself

Health & Fitness > Disease (Other) Symptoms and treatment of shingles

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Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox, the herpes zoster virus. It can cause a painful rash and make you feel very ill. Most adults have had chickenpox as children. Following chickenpox, the virus stays in your body,but is inactive. The virus lives in the nerve cells.If the immune system is weak, the virus 'wakes up' and starts reproducing in the nerve cells. The virus travels along the nerves to the nerve endings in the skin. This can cause shingles. You can't catch shingles, you can only get shingles if you've already had chickenpox. Symptoms - The main symptom of s...

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