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Last week i suffered the worst case of poison ivy in world history! Tuesday night when i came home from the barn i decided there was nothing going that evening so i was going to tackle that mound of roses that were all tangled together and had more poison then roses. they poison and dew berry vines had to go. So I did it...with a Hoe, kids utility rake, and my hands....Dumb, yes, I know this! But it had to be dun and I didn't know of any other way to do it except for Round up and I didn't wanna kill the roses! So like a mad woman I went after it! And I got it accomplished too! It was dark when i got dun but it was dun!
Yes, I knew I was in contact with Poison Ivy and yes, I went straight in and took a hot shower w/ lots of soap...i soaped myself down 4 times in hope that it wouldn't cause any problems. (i've heard since that you shouldn't take a HOT shower...)
Wednesday and Thursday the rashes started...first on the back of my hands and my face and neck, gradually spreading pretty much anywhere that would have been exposed and not clothed. By Friday morning when i got up to milk @ 4 am my one eye was starting to swell....and Saturday the longer the day progressed the closer my eyes were to closed! I was glad i Had decided NOT to go to the Hartwell meetings. And it was also a good thing Andrea didn't either and that she came and stayed @ my house. I might have gone crazy otherwise! I even asked if i could switch Saturday afternoon milking for another day. Which means i get to milk this afternoon instead.
Sunday I didn't go to church but i did end up going to Gordan's for lunch but w/ a very puffy face! There were a lot of other displaced characters there because of the Hartwell meetings but they decided i was the most displaced! :-)
A friend told me about a pill that's made from Poison Ivy plant that helped her brother so mom went the the Drug Store and got me some of that after the Pharmisist ordered it in the next day so Friday afternoon i started on that...by Saturday the rash on my forehead had disappeared and slowly but surely it has been drying up...I went to chorus Monday night and told everybody i looked really good and i think some of them wanted to LOL! literally! I was still kinda bad then...but trust me, i looked good! :-) I even had/have it on the palms of my hands! yes, painful!
Saturday morning i decided i couldn't sit in the house all day cause i'd just scratch if i did...so i decided to built flowerbeds. I started in the back and dug up the ground and added peat moss of the one and found bricks to temporarily outline it. Then I went around to the front and replanted grass elsewhere to make another one by the porch where it's missing an azalea. I put pine straw from the lane over it to prettify it up as the soil would look sandy and yuck once it dries. I also checked on my strawberry plants to make sure they were still growing...i think i may have a lot of berries this spring! if i don't kill them first! :-)
Sunday while i stayed home from church i discovered a lil puppy in my yard. After lunch i went and captured one of them! i don't have any pictures just yet but he is the cutest thing ever! Yesterday i found another one that i might take up for Ryan sometime. I don't even think it's pretty my mom said she thought it was....hopefully they don't chew thru their cotton ropes i tied them up with! :-) Mom bought food for them @ Walmart yesterday and since they are eating that they are quite energetic lil bundles!
So yeah this is my life this week...it's definitely better now then it was last week!
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