Jean-Karlo
Nicky, this weekend wasn t great for me. I had to go to the hospital this Saturday because I came down with Shingles. See, Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. If you had chickenpox as a kid, you re inoculated against getting it a second time, but the virus is still in you, laying dormant somewhere in your nervous system. Once you hit your sixties or if you re an adult living under a particular amount of stress you are vulnerable to an outbreak of the virus, which causes painful, itchy blisters to break out somewhere on your body that corresponds to where the virus is housed in your nervous system. There s a vaccine, but no real cure if you re younger than 60. So I ve got this thing on my face and I have to be careful to not spread this virus that can cause chickenpox to other people.
Part of what I m going to collectively refer to as edutainment Thursdays,
Cells at Work! Code Black hope to both teach about the functions inside the human body and how it reacts to invaders like bacteria and viruses.
David Production handled the original show and this eight-episode sequel while
Code Black.
I was a big fan of the original, and while I sometimes found the narration to be invasive in a show not tell kind of way, it was a lot of fun and became day-of viewing for myself and my husband. Now that we have two new seasons, I m ready to once again immerse myself in the gory cartoon world that is the human body. I m also dragging aforementioned husband Matt (RN) along for the ride. He basically used his encyclopedic brain for medical stuff instead of being smart like me and memorizing profile details for fictional cartoon characters. What a rube. After each episode I ll add some of Matt s comments on how accurately things were visually translated into the show.