The virus cleverly hid, in caves, near you spine, way upriver on a nerve, and just waited, like a guerrilla, to pounce upon the unsuspecting natives downstream.
The virus never left. It was just waiting for your immune system to let its guard down momentarily.
I was affected bilaterally and in several different portions of my body. Both hands, face, both sides of back, etc. Not the "single nerve" that is common with shingles.
(PeteCresswell) wrote, on Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:12:57 -0400:
If you want, I'll snap a picture of my red sweatshirt and bluejeans, literally splotched with poison oak black lacquer spots.
Clearly I have been covered in the oily stuff, and, I get the rash when I don't wash well.
What "I" do, is use a copious amount of Dawn/Palmolive, in a nice comfortably hot shower, usually covering myself from head to toe three times in a white film of dish detergent.
The theory is that the copious amount of surfactant "prevents" the catechol from adhering to a skin cell, and the just as copious amount of water flushes it down the drain.
My sister and her hubbie had some, shall we say, "issues", so I inherited her young kids, so to speak, while she's sorting this stuff out, which is keeping me pretty busy (ever try to keep up full-time with an 8 year old when you thought you were all done with that years ago?).
The treehouse project, which was my neighbor's pet project, is on hold. I was there today, fixing some broken boards - but there's not much to report back.
We have been doing a LOT of radio work (building a mesh neighborhood system), and a LOT of genocidal maniac work on the Spanish Broom. And that's just for today.
Lunch for an 8-year old made by a clueless uncle:
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Treehouse taken today, not much progress:
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Antenna taken today, we're getting too old to climb these things:
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Why do all the WiFi radio wires look the same?
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Had to gently coerce this widow to move to a new location:
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Learning how best to use cut-stem glyphosate technique:
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Broke another lopper today (my third this month!):
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Spanish broom taken today (I'm a genocidal maniac):
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Spanish broom in the landscape buckets:
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Clearing minor poison oak around the old cave so the kids can play:
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Debugging a leaking hot water heater today (how to *find* the leak?):
I once looked into them. The removal tends to not be very permanent. If the weed is dry, the tops burn off, leaving the roots okay. It grows back. You need to use them after it has rained. With the plant saturated, the heat will conduct down the roots and damages the roots. Somewhat.
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