Shingles shot brings chance at bundle of tests Joe Crawford FacebookTwitterEmail I decided to get a shingles vaccination last week. Shingles is the grown up version of the childhood disease chicken pox only the difference is you don’t get to stay home from school anymore. I was too stupid to get chicken pox as a child waiting until I was an adult to get around to it. That was not a good decision. If you want to know what a leper feels like, get chicken pox when you’re 30. When I dared leave the house I had to yell out “Unclean, unclean!” just to warn people to get out of the way.