Cassel Research Centre

Early the next morning with his wife Jan drove Brian to a Tibetan Buddhist Festival in Prahran but mentioned feeling unusually grumpy, fatigued, sad and sore that day.Brian promised he would be there. Coincidentally one of his former patients attended and on seeing Brian who looked like death warmed up, in pain and very grey, cheerfully she offered a Raki-type back massage. Although singularly unimpressed with the festival under pervading circumstances, enlightened understanding of old fashioned friendship was the real lesson of the day.

As a consequence of the head butting, a few weeks later, Brian suffered shingles with radiating intercostal pain following a symmetrical ellipse pattern marking from his chest to T6 vertebra. Happily the FBP administered for Shingles was an unexpected bonus because, metastases was not revealed. He quarantined himself from seeing patients for six weeks at the clinics and in discomfort, learned much more about Shingles.