Clogged Terlits

How is it that it's not even June and I have received a batch of poison ivy?

Being a good neighbor, I pulled some weeds next door.  The side of our neighbor's house is totally overgrown and borderline "A Cat House."  Lots of random branches, non-ornamental grasses and dandelions blanket their yard.  Foolishly, I didn't inspect anything I was pulling out.  Normally, I check DILIGENTLY for the 3-leafed variety.  Dammit if I didn't wake up Saturday with itchies on my left wrist.  Shit.

Carrie, my dad and I have a SEVERE sensitivity to poison ivy, poison sumac and Virginia Creeper.  For example, we could be standing 10 feet from mentioned plants and get spots of itchies the next day.  Not to mention, the itchies almost always turn into some weird infection.  Two years ago, my dad had poison oak on his arms and it morphed into an almost out of control staph infection.  Gross.


The World Plant Organization needs to change the name Poison Ivy to Complete Bullshit.