Everything is sounding positively lovely...I miss showering together! Lucky H....(i would say lucky you but hey he's the lucky one!)
I was thinking probably your mom has/had what we in US call shingles...I have heard it can be unbearably painful when it flares up. The late night host David Letterman got them several years back and was off his show for like a week...
A long weekend during his Europe trip? Sounds like fun!
