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tanaiseI am poison ivy girl. Plus, mosquitoes feasted on me while my hands were covered in poison ivy tainted gloves and couldn't kill them. In retrospect, a long sleeved shirt would have been a good idea, but it was hot, and I didn't plan this very well. My poison ivy starts just at the point where the glove cuts off. it's all on the inside of my lower left arm. The upper part of my lower arm. I also have bug bites on my upper arm, and my lower right arm, and on the outside of my left arm.
I have: a) delicate skin and b) sharp nails. I am now about ready to amputate my arms. Benedryl cream does *nothing* (reading the label, this isn't surprising, seeing as calamine lotion doesn't work either, and they're the same thing). Cortisone creams never have helped, so I didn't bother with them, but I'll probably try tomorrow. I figure, if I ever get an interview, it will be when I've managed to get poison ivy on my face. Probably from rubbing my eye, so I'll be unable to wear my contact and thus completely blind. And then I will have spread it all across my face and it will itch like crazy, and I will have to have my fingernails cut (oh, maybe I'll try that tomorrow if I can't behave normally) and gloves glued on so I can't scratch. Yeah, and then I'll have to go to an interview and act fascinated in something other than scratching my face.
Technically, this is not a very bad case. It's just that I am skilled in messing up my skin. I can get welts just from idly scratching my arm. I have huge welts from this. My mom once got poison ivy the week before she got her current job. And she did a killer job at getting it. She was bare-legged, wearing shorts, while she was pulling it up. So when she went to the bathroom, she managed to spread it up both legs. And she had some on her face, and I think on both arms. She had it so bad she had to get cortisone shots. And they apparently cause false positives on drug tests, just so you know. Cause she had one, cause she's working for the prison system.
In other news, I picked about 12 cups of berries today. And I have to go back out, probably not tomorrow, but Thursday. There may be again as many berries yet to ripen. I just have to outwit the birds. Tomorrow, on the long list of things I have to do (go to market, go to town for my contact check up, wash dishes, etc), I now have 'boil berries down to juice for jelly later this week.'
I have: a) delicate skin and b) sharp nails. I am now about ready to amputate my arms. Benedryl cream does *nothing* (reading the label, this isn't surprising, seeing as calamine lotion doesn't work either, and they're the same thing). Cortisone creams never have helped, so I didn't bother with them, but I'll probably try tomorrow. I figure, if I ever get an interview, it will be when I've managed to get poison ivy on my face. Probably from rubbing my eye, so I'll be unable to wear my contact and thus completely blind. And then I will have spread it all across my face and it will itch like crazy, and I will have to have my fingernails cut (oh, maybe I'll try that tomorrow if I can't behave normally) and gloves glued on so I can't scratch. Yeah, and then I'll have to go to an interview and act fascinated in something other than scratching my face.
Technically, this is not a very bad case. It's just that I am skilled in messing up my skin. I can get welts just from idly scratching my arm. I have huge welts from this. My mom once got poison ivy the week before she got her current job. And she did a killer job at getting it. She was bare-legged, wearing shorts, while she was pulling it up. So when she went to the bathroom, she managed to spread it up both legs. And she had some on her face, and I think on both arms. She had it so bad she had to get cortisone shots. And they apparently cause false positives on drug tests, just so you know. Cause she had one, cause she's working for the prison system.
In other news, I picked about 12 cups of berries today. And I have to go back out, probably not tomorrow, but Thursday. There may be again as many berries yet to ripen. I just have to outwit the birds. Tomorrow, on the long list of things I have to do (go to market, go to town for my contact check up, wash dishes, etc), I now have 'boil berries down to juice for jelly later this week.'
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Date: 2003-07-02 08:32 am (UTC)I started having hives out of the blue a few years ago (I'm still on meds to control them) and I kept my fingernails supershort to try to keep from scratching (didn't work)and I haven't been able to wear them long ever since.