texasred777
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- Nov 21, 2013
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Deepseeker, I used to go hunting and have actually laid in poison ivy/oak many times. Once or twice I remember getting a little red bump on my face or arm, but never more than that. Then in the early 1990s I was at an old warehouse taking a part out of an old gas pump. The pump was on the outside and a lot of weeds, etc. was around it. This was in the middle of winter. It was cold enough that I was wearing a pair of insulated coveralls. I scratched my wrist on the stem of some poison ivy/oak that was growing through the old 'gutted' pump. After leaving, I noticed the scratch; but didn't even bleed. Just a scratch. Then, later, I started itching. The next day I had some whelps. Then I had to go to the doctor because my arm from the wrist to elbow was solid itchy, burning, and had blisters all over it. It looked a lot worse than it felt. I looked worse than some sci-fi make up I've seen! It took about 10 or 12 days for the arm to look like it might be 'salvageable'. I still have scar, almost an inch long, from that little, bitty scratch.
I say poison ivy/oak because I can never remember which is which. lol
I asked the doctor why all of a sudden I'm allergic to the stuff. He said there were two things that might have caused this. One was age; I was in my early 50s. The other was that in the winter, the poison was much more potent. I also asked if I would get I would get infected every time I got close to it from now on. He said only experimenting would tell. I'm not doing that!
My sis was on a school field trip. They were walking on a farm-to-market road looking at/for something. There was some growing on the fence several yards from where she was. She spent about 4 days in the hospital with her eyes swollen shut and the rest of her body almost as bad.
I say poison ivy/oak because I can never remember which is which. lol
I asked the doctor why all of a sudden I'm allergic to the stuff. He said there were two things that might have caused this. One was age; I was in my early 50s. The other was that in the winter, the poison was much more potent. I also asked if I would get I would get infected every time I got close to it from now on. He said only experimenting would tell. I'm not doing that!
My sis was on a school field trip. They were walking on a farm-to-market road looking at/for something. There was some growing on the fence several yards from where she was. She spent about 4 days in the hospital with her eyes swollen shut and the rest of her body almost as bad.
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