By Santi Vardhana Caitanya Dasa
Dear Maharajas, Prabhu and Matajis, please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
HH Bhakti Vrajendranandana Swami has unfortunately contracted shingles.
The Doctors at Mawar Specialist Hospital Seremban are at loss because it would need a strong dosage of antiviral drugs to counteract the resistant bacterias of the shingles. They are afraid it would worsen the liver sclerosis.
They are already giving the antiviral drugs. However they are concerned about the liver sclerosis. Therefore, they had advised that we use traditional medicines or even prayers simultaneously.
Today Maharaja went to Mahkota Specialist Hospital in Malacca for liver check up and met a liver specialist. According to the liver specialist, Maharaja’s liver is 10% damaged due to auto immune hepatitis. Auto immune hepatitis is a form of immune disorder whereby the body’s own immune cells attacks the liver cells. This progressively damages the liver daily and the doctors have to prescribe immuno-suppressant drugs in order to suppress the immune cells from attacking the liver cells.
Unfortunately, by doing so, it would lower the immune system of Maharaja’s body. Any form of sickness could create damage to Maharaja’s health. The liver specialist has confirmed that without administering this drug the liver would be completely damaged within a year.
Therefore, the Doctors are looking from all angles to see what is best for Maharaja to recover from all these complications.
We humbly request all devotee to please increase your prayers and hold kirtans in your respective temple for Maharaja’s health. What is shingles? Shingles is a painful skin rash camera. It is caused by the varicella zoster virus. Shingles usually appears in a band, a strip, or a small area on one side of the face or body. It is also called herpes zoster. Shingles is most common in older adults and people who have weak immune systems because of stress, injury, certain medicines, or other reasons. Most people who get shingles will get better and will not get it again. What causes shingles? Shingles occurs when the virus that causes chickenpox starts up again in your body. After you get better from chickenpox, the virus “sleeps” (is dormant) in your nerve roots. In some people, it stays dormant forever. In others, the virus “wakes up” when disease, stress, or aging weakens the immune system. Some medicines may trigger the virus to wake up and cause a shingles rash. It is not clear why this happens. But after the virus becomes active again, it can only cause shingles, not chickenpox.
your servant, santi vardhana caitanya dasa
Prayers for HH Bhakti Vrajendranandana Swami full recovery. I’ve had Singles three times. It is a nasty disease. I know one devotee who had it in the muscle sheath in his face; he was in agony. I had it in my back, but didn’t know what was causing the pain because the rash didn’t show up for two weeks. I couldn’t sleep. My health deteriorated. Only the vaccine relieved the symptoms. After the third time, I got a Shingles vaccine. It is 90% effective. I haven’t had the disease since. If the disease does return, it is reduced in its intensity if you’ve taken the vaccine. The vaccine is recommended for bodies over 55 years of age. Again, prayers for Maharaja. May the kind Lord Dhanvantari heal you quickly.
We are being inspired to pray more. That is mercy. HH Bhakti Vrajendra nandana Swami’s destination is fixed, to be with Srila Prabhupada.