I'm digging out all the long sleeve shirts I can find.
1.) It's friggin cold again.
2.) NOT in the pile from this past Sat.(what does get it off clothes? I'm hesitant to touch the laundry.)
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luckilly its not as itchy as a fire ant sting.....i woke up one morning and i had scratched my arm til it was a bloody mess in my sleep and never remembered even doing it...

Worst I had was a spider bite.
Never saw it. Tiny web on the mirror mount of my truck one morning. The first day it itched. I thought it was a mosquito bite.
The day after that I woke up with one forearm 4 times the size of the other. Numb for two weeks.
I still have mystery lumps and scars seven years later.
Still don't know what it was.

the old method
 

of poison ivy oil removal was using a really strong "oil breaking down laundry soap"....the bar was tan...(stil available) smelly like pine sol is... and its good for washing your hands....the oil can stay in dugarees for years if not washed ...especially if you were weed wacking and getting poison ivy sap/oil on your pant legs... you then have to soak them outdoors and use a scrub brush to really penetrate the fibers. then wash with real strong laundry soap. even washing your hands doesnt clean them of bacteria unless you use a brush to clean out all the nooks and crannies of your skin.same with clothes.
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the thing with poison ivy oil ...is that it penetrates your epidermial layer like nothin... and gets done to the subcutaneously layer that's bright red "seen only when you cut yourself bad". then the oil generates a response there and it creates a sore to expell the oil back up and out....of you... so thats why...it can get re-deposited back onto your skin, and transfered to other undesirable areas.

Thanks.
So you're saying with my mini-grinder I have to get down to the "really cut bad" layer?

Lye soap. Right?

Seeing as there are so many bad plants (1) out in the yard trying to do me harm I think I have skip yard work and go fishing this weekend.

its MUCH easier
 

to smother it out than cut it out unless its on trees then cut the main roots with loppers...which you clean with precious gasoline later.
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to smother it: use an old section of carpet ....grass clippings and or black plastic with sand or soil or rocks to anchor it down. you can also spray it with 4 times the concentration of round up when your about to have four consecutive sunny days....although the new stuff (round up)claims to have water proof capability in 20 minutes....and thats a good thing!

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Lye soap. Right? heres the picture
I think I have skip yard work ...good idea ...smother it instead
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...snaphasoap.jpg

Thanks for the advice.
I appreciate all the info.
Went back out in the yard a few hours ago.
The sprout is now a small shrub. Easy to kill.

Then I looked up.......................
(My yard is a hill. 75-85 feet to the house above. I cleared 6 feet up and back and I'm paying for it.)

What's the biggest piece of plastic or carpet I can buy?
20x20?
30x30?

shoot
 

I never caught it to last year, when I was a kid I'd rub the leaves on me and never caught it.worked around it in the rain yesterday and today I got a lump spoted rash on my neck and head:eek5: didn't think I'd get it in the wet:poke:

kill >>>posion ivy <<<kill
 

so much for being immune...all I did was look at it and I got it:wall:

thats how i am too
 

slingah .... if i even look at it,
i have it the next day...

it's like i have to have a silver cross and
walk backwards chanting the holy scripture.

thats why i know so much about healing skin
because it sure likes my scottish (scandinavian)
white skin
i guess. :huh:

thanks for your posts raven....I got some killin to do:devil:

My doc gave me a cream called LYDEX,worked real well.Along with a cortisone shot and a scrip for Prednisone of course.

IM l#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g Idon't get it. MY regular fishing partner didn't belive me so we went and found some rubbed it on my arm and never got it he used the same plant and he got it now he doesn't aruge with me. ThomT

best remedy of all...stay out of poison ivy!! it's always worked for me. if that doesn't work,wear gloves. good fishing.

Yhere is a good Canal spot that I had to stop fishing cause I got poison ivy or Oak or Sumac (whatever it is over there) every time I went there. I'd even be extra c areful not to touch anything but I think it was getting on my cloths too.

I get it every shad season. I must get too charged up to remember to check what I'm walking trough... I'll say this; I've tried every over the counter med and they never work fast. I trhink all they do is make u more comfortable til it runs its course. An uncle who works at the DPW told me to wipe the area with full strength Clorox bleach and it was gone in 2 days. If its bad and starts to ooze get the shot from the doc or a RX for the steroid because if you delay you'll get it like I did, I looked like a maple tree during sugar season with the pus running down my legs-NASTY.

Somebody wrote about buring PI...Mikey and I had a barbeque in the Mt. Tom Reservation in the spring of 1990, and instead of using charcoal we burned wood!!!
Omigawd!!! I looked like the bear in Looney Tunes that got stung all over the head!!!
My uncle had me on 4 tabs of Benadryl every four hours...I still don't remember taking finals that year...somehow I got a 3.9 that semester, too.
The Bomba's get it bad!!! I still won't fish where Mikey fishes without being in full wader gear, and don't touch anything that even comes in contact with the stuff...what can I say, though...Mikey's a little more hardcore than me.
I'm sick right now...but I'm not itching!!!
Later,
Sick Rick

hey Rick
 

i hope ya feel Better soon ,,,,,man.:wave: