Jill, official oldest daughter of NewMexiKen, caught her first ever dose of poison ivy while retrieving her boys’ football from the Virginia woods. She reports:
So, I went to the doctor for the poison ivy. It had been a week since I was infected, and it just kept getting worse every 12 hours.
She put me on a steroid to help clear up the rash. She said that the medicine would make me irritable and nervous, make it difficult to sleep, and give me an increased appetite.
So…business as usual, I guess.
poison ivy is strange stuff. some folx can wade thru it with impunity for years without any effect, then one day *pow* they’ve got their first case and don’t know what it is (but they will know next time…)
and it’s odd the way the symptoms don’t immediately manifest, but appear hours later, and seem –as jill notes– to become worse in measurable intervals. poison ivy is all about delayed reaxions.