Retired bishop Irja Askola is now telling her well -being.
Irja Askola lives with pain. Veikko Somerpuro
Worked as a bishop of the diocese of Helsinki Irja Askola retired in 2017. Now 72-year-old Askola said Ilta-Sanomat about their health problems that makes every morning a battle. He has a bad shingle that causes pain.
– The aches are affected by the need to fight the depression every morning. I have a depression going on, said Askola Ilta-Sanomat.
Askola says he is comforting himself by chatting on a sore foot in the morning.
Health library According to, shingles is a local blistering skin change caused by chickenpox virus, which becomes more common with age. In most cases, symptoms are burning and pain at the rash.
Irja Askola said earlier To Apu magazine From a rude rose: from the ankle to the knee extended to red inflammation. The doctor found out that it had originated from a mosquito bite. Even a violent antibiotic gauge did not leverage it. Askola reminded in the magazine that some sufferers remain active because the bacterial strain of the rose does not disappear.
-I want to tell you that the number of people with rose has reportedly increased, he comments to Apu magazine.
Today, he uses a walking stick.
Askola also told the magazine that he had moved to a service home in Southern Helsinki a couple of years ago.