I used to get poison ivy every year when I was a kid in Illinois. One year
when I was around 9 or 10, my brother and I must have found a patch that
gave us a miserable case of it for at least a couple of weeks. I never got
it again while I lived in Illinois, or when we moved to Minnesota when I
was a teenager.
Moved to California after college, and there is no poison ivy out here, but
poison oak. It's essentially the same stuff. A similar leaf, but a
different plant configuration. The same Urushiol oil. I'd lived in CA for
about 8 years, and never got the stuff.
I got into a motorcycle accident and the bike went plowing through a giant
patch of PO (short name for poison oak). I tore off my leather jacket and
headed down the hill after the bike. Meanwhile, my girlfriend at the time
(now my wife, bless her heart) tells me "Don't go through there it's all
PO!" I ignore her, and shout back "I don't get that stuff."
Well, I had ruptured my spleen. Many hours later, I went under the knife to
get that taken care of. The next morning, I had several little round
patches of PO wherever they had stuck a monitor patch of any kind. They
gave me a tube of cortisone to take care of it. It did not get "bad", but I
still got it.
I've had occasional bouts with it over the years. As long as I'm reasonably
careful, and wash it off within an hour or two, it almost never amounts to
anything. I don't get a giant rash or anything; just a little redness that
goes away in a day or so & no "big itch".
That said, for people who are sensitive, it can be really nasty.
--
bp
part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com
On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 5:17 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’m 68 and I encountered poison ivy for the first time in my life this
> year. Jeez Louise, that’s nasty stuff. It took 3 weeks to mostly clear up.
>
>
>
> Be careful. Just touching the outside of the Tyvek or the gloves and
> you’re still screwed.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 6, 2019 5:56 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] This is what I had for lunch and you didn't
>
>
>
> I put on white Tyvek and HD nitrile gloves to clear a patch of poison oak
> behind the water tanks the other day. It was only about 80 or 85, but I was
> dying out there. When I pulled the gloves off, it seemed like there was a
> pint of water in each one.
>
>
>
> bp
>
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
>
>
> On 8/6/2019 3:26 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> The most real work I ever do is to:
>
> Steam Clean
>
> Sandblast
>
> Survey
>
>
>
> A couple of days ago I spent an hour sandblasting. It was 109 outside. I
> had on white tyvek but I thought it was gonna kill me.
>
>
>
> *From:* Jaime Solorza
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 6, 2019 4:07 PM
>
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] This is what I had for lunch and you didn't
>
>
>
> Yep. Tower work in am, nice lunch, relay testing in pm, and now getting
> close to Tecate time.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019, 2:01 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I could afford to eat maybe the taco and the rice. Luckily they both look
> quite yummy.
>
>
>
> But since his selfies usually show him working or hiking, maybe it’s not
> just metabolism. If I worked that hard, I could probably get away with
> eating like that.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *[email protected]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 6, 2019 2:49 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] This is what I had for lunch and you didn't
>
>
>
> I wish I had your metabolism!
>
>
>
> *From:* Jaime Solorza
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 6, 2019 1:44 PM
>
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>
> *Subject:* [AFMUG] This is what I had for lunch and you didn't
>
>
>
> Enjoy
> ------------------------------
>
> --
> AF mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>
> --
> AF mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>
> ------------------------------
>
> --
> AF mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>
>
>
> --
> AF mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>
--
AF mailing list
[email protected]
http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
