Poison Ivy

Posted by Anonymous On 1:41 AM

Cachinnatees... I've got poison ivy rash. (I've been reading up on it. You're not supposed to say, "I've got poison ivy." That makes no sense. Poison ivy is a plant. The rash is what you get from touching it. That's my new thing that I learned today.)

Poison ivy! Come on! I've never had it before. I thought it was bug bites for a while. But bug bites don't make you crazy with itchy pain. So I did some research. I found this website. Now... careful! Don't just go clicking on that link. While it is full of useful information, it also contains this slideshow that is full of some of the most horrible and disgusting images I've ever seen in my life. If you're at all squeamish, (or eating... that's for you StarDiva), DO NOT FOLLOW THOSE LINKS. If however, you want to see something that will disturb and violate your senses, click away.

So what do you think? Should I post pictures of my poison ivy rashes?

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11 Cachinnations

  1. Seth Ward Said,

    That depends entirely on where the rash is located...

    Posted on 3/06/2007

     
  2. Fork Said,

    I wanna know what were you thinking rolling around in poison ivy in the first place. What did you expect would happen?

    Posted on 3/06/2007

     
  3. euphrony Said,

    1) Please, no photos of the Cachinnator in full rash.

    2) I have to regularly take safety classes. They love to emphasize hand safety, and demonstrate the consequences of not following through with safety. Pictures of a hand with the ring finger completely devoid of flesh and muscle, while the mangled ring and meaty pulp lie next to it are commonplace. (Personally, besides the pain, I think they make them pose for these pictures as part of the punishment for ruining the safety record.) I also had a friend in college who once worked in a plant; he had his right hand sucked into a compressor and all that was left was a stub of his thumb. I could go on, but I won't as you are possibly throwing up a little in your mouth right now.

    3) While I get bad allergies, I am generally desensitized / immune to things like poison ivy, poison oak, nettles, etc. So, nay nay nay.

    Posted on 3/06/2007

     
  4. Seth Ward Said,

    bigtime Poison ivy over fiddle-back bite. ANY day. Nothing gives me the heebie-geebies like a brown Recluse... Except for that time when my friend ate his scab in highschool to gross me out.

    Posted on 3/07/2007

     
  5. Anonymous Said,

    A friend of ours recently confessed to scab chewing recently. Beeki still can't even think about it without gagging and she won't be able to look him in the eye for a few more months. That's comedy.

    As for the pain? I'd rather exchange my toilet paper for sand paper right now than have this poison ivy rash. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

    Posted on 3/07/2007

     
  6. Anonymous Said,

    There is not a force on this earth strong enough to make me click on those links! aarrrggghhhhh Thanks SOOO Much for giving a warning this time. *whew*

    SqueamishDiva

    Posted on 3/07/2007

     
  7. Moderator Said,

    There's a great movie starring the lovley and talented Allisa Milano titled "Poison Ivy." I highly recommend it.

    Posted on 3/07/2007

     
  8. Anonymous Said,

    Grant Miller, you're a liar! That is not a great movie! That movie ended my childhood. And I never even saw it! I was in Israel when it came out so it was on video when I got back in the early 90's. The last time I had seen Allisa Milano she was in Who's the Boss. She was still innocent and virginal and pure in my head... and then I went to Blockbuster. My inner child died that day.

    And I'm itchin' like a crack fiend in rehab.

    Posted on 3/07/2007

     
  9. Chaotic Hammer Said,

    My small group was helping a single mother with a bunch of yard work a few months ago, and I was weed-eating a bunch of vines and weeds and stuff from a walkway in the back of the house for quite a while. Someone came along when I was almost done and pointed out that most of the stuff I'd been weed-eating (i.e. violently attacking with a big spinning machine that was throwing leaf particles and dust into the air and all over me in large green chunks) was in fact, poison ivy.

    Because I realized right then how much trouble I was in, on the way home I stopped and picked up Tecnu or something similar, and washed all my skin, hair, and clothes in the stuff. It actually worked -- I didn't get any poison ivy rash at all, despite extreme exposure to the stuff.

    I take it you were not aware you were exposed until some days later, correct? By then it's too late to do anything. But if you are ever aware immediately, this Tecnu stuff actually works. For future reference, of course. :-\

    Posted on 3/08/2007

     
  10. Anonymous Said,

    Yeah... for the first three days or so, I just thought it was bug bites. So I scratched the hell out of it. Now I have gaping open wounds on my legs. Sorry StarDiva... no warning there.

    Gaping. Open. Wounds.

    Posted on 3/08/2007

     
  11. Gaby Hess Said,

    I immediately had to launch the slideshow. Now I wish I hadn't. How will I get those nasty images out of my head?? GROSS!!

    Posted on 3/08/2007