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[serinde]

Some of these mosquito bites are not mosquito bites. They're poison-ivy blisters.

Where the hell did they come from?

Comments

[elibalin.livejournal.com]

Clearly the poison ivy has grown weary of being on the wrong end of your gardening exploits and has adopted a doctrine of covert pre-emptive strikes.

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

Did that patch in back return?

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Well, this is pretty much the traditional time of the year for you to cop poison ivy, isn't it? Just in time for Burning Man/Pennsic... ;)

[dkfromtk.livejournal.com]

Clearly, the mosquitoes and the poison ivy have mated, producing some sort of super mosquito-ivy hybrid, which have been ordered to attack you by a shadowy mastermind mad at you for, and this part is purely speculation, using the wrong brand of aspirin.

You may thank me later.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Are you 100% sure they're poison ivy?

Maybe it's from my garden. Note that I mentioned that I also have itches and thought it was mosquito bites...

[naudia.livejournal.com]

That does indeed suck. Now there is more zanfel. Hopefully your decision not to scratch combined with your iron will and some nice medicine will help it to heal quickly without spreading.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Nope. Garden Darwinism has taken place and random weeds have moved into that ecological niche.

(A propos, did you still have mint plants going begging?)

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I have one blot which is quite definitely a poison ivy blister. I have several which were actual mosquito bites (undoubtedly from working in Brian's garden on Tuesday) and those are fading. And there are a few that could be either--they haven't formed full blisters but they aren't fading quick enough to be skeeter bites.

You definitely did not have any poison ivy in your rosebed. I can write you a guarantee on that.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

*rant rant rant rave rave* wah!

Evil, Evil Poison Ivy is from Hell!

[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. Or itch in this case. As mentioned, I have the worst case of PI I have ever had, so I've been doing some research. Sorry if you knew all this. I would suggest a dr. visit, shot of cortisone in the butt, and Rx dose of prednisone, plus Rx cortisone cream. Scratching doesn't spread it, once the oil is washed off, but don't do it anyway, because you don't want the blisters to open. You can't give it to someone else, once the oil is washed off, but can spread oil from one person to another. Oil can stay potent on objects like gardening tools for up to a year. (Maybe that's how you got it?) Sometimes when it appears to be spreading, it's because areas exposed to less oil take longer to develop the rash. After gardening, if I've even seen PI, I often wash with Dawn dishwashing soap. Burt's Bees PI soap seems good for drying the rash. Time between exposure and rash is supposedly anywhere from 4 hrs to 10 days. Benadryl lotion came highly recommended to reduce itch, but seemed to do nothing to reduce rash. Hopefully it'll be gone before Pennsic. If not we will drink heavily.

[missionista.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear it. :(

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

My peppermint wants to take over the world. Stop by and you can have some.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I lie. Yes, it did. It's spreading out from its beach-head under the tree again--I didn't notice because there's some large weedlike shrubbery over top of it.

I maintain my theory that this plant was bio-engineered by an inimical alien race.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I'll probably do so this weekend, if that's okay.

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

Saturday is best for me.