7.3.06
Poison ivy iz teh sux0r
I have a fence in my backyard that is completely overgrown with weeds. Unfortunately, they're all coming over from my neighbor's yard.
About 2 weeks ago (Sunday), I decide to take the electric saw and start hacking at them. My right hand is slicing and dicing, and my left hand is pulling it all down. I get a good start, and call it quits for the day.
All is normal on that following Tuesday (during work), until my wrist starts itching. It looks like a slight rash. By that evening, that rash spread across my wrist and up my hand.
Taking some Benadryl to help me sleep, I awaken on Wednesday to find my right eye nearly swollen shut. My arm developed a puffy sore as well. Wrist was enlarged as well. That's when I realised I working fist deep in poison ivy on Sunday...which is funny because I live in the city, so "poison" anything is the last thing I'm concerned about.
All that I read up on the symptoms said that it should go away on it's own over time. The itching was bad at all, so I decided to let time cure it. That is, until Friday. By then, my wrist was actually hurting and it was getting hard to swallow due to pain.
I visited the doctor and explained what was happening (except the throat pain...didn't think it was related). She gave me a steroid shot and a 5 day, tapered perscription for Prednisone.
Shortly after taking my first dose, my throat started feeling better and the pain in my wrist went away. That's scary. If I decided not to listen to better judgement, I could have found myself in a dire situation.
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