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flowerbug
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hopefully have address fixed back to what it should be or at least talked to someone today who seemed able to get it done.
stubbed toes and mud pies
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flowerbug
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poison ivy sure can be sneaky and nasty if you don't even know you've been exposed to it, but even if you've knowingly gotten into it and taken precautions you can still mess up.
i have a few spots on my wrist where i somehow missed scrubbing off the oils or it was on a shirt sleeve and i thought i'd changed the shirt or something.
i was doing the usual calamine lotion and trying not to scratch the crap out of it and thinking it might help to put a coat of liquid bandage over it to keep it from rubbing on my sleeves and causing more itching. very much the exact wrong thing to do.
this morning i had enough and tried to washing the liquid bandage off and trying to peel it off and otherwise making things even worse as now i'm leaking more fluids but it is at least an honest pain and not a horrible itch that i can't resolve. pain i can cope with a lot more. it's not bad at the moment as i did put some more calamine lotion.
did i mention the hair on my wrist i didn't shave off before putting on the liquid bandage... heh...
i have a few spots on my wrist where i somehow missed scrubbing off the oils or it was on a shirt sleeve and i thought i'd changed the shirt or something.
i was doing the usual calamine lotion and trying not to scratch the crap out of it and thinking it might help to put a coat of liquid bandage over it to keep it from rubbing on my sleeves and causing more itching. very much the exact wrong thing to do.
this morning i had enough and tried to washing the liquid bandage off and trying to peel it off and otherwise making things even worse as now i'm leaking more fluids but it is at least an honest pain and not a horrible itch that i can't resolve. pain i can cope with a lot more. it's not bad at the moment as i did put some more calamine lotion.
did i mention the hair on my wrist i didn't shave off before putting on the liquid bandage... heh...
digitS'
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I have no experience with poison ivy. Poison oak is the western torment if one gets into it. And yet, I seemed to have moved far enuf inland/north(?) that I don't find it ...
Calamine lotion certainly came to be what we used in other climes.
Do you think an antihistamine cream (benadryl) would be of help?
Steve
Calamine lotion certainly came to be what we used in other climes.
Do you think an antihistamine cream (benadryl) would be of help?
Steve
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flowerbug
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it has hardly itched at all today once i got the liquid bandage stuff off - it hasn't really hurt either. a lot better for sure.
i have no experience with poison oak, but i have enough reactions to other things that grow here that i have to generally be careful of what i'm doing and wash up well when i'm coming in for breaks or at the end of the day. at this point it is easier for me to just assume that i'm going to react.
