The Itching Never Ceases

It all started last Saturday. It was my husbands fault. He doesn't know where he got it from either one of two places. Either it was from hauling rocks out of an abandoned tombstone graveyard or it was from leaning up against a tree at a picnic. Either way I did neither of those things and I still have it... so it's his fault!

It started because his ring finger itched a couple of little red bumps and so he decided to take his ring off (not his wedding band but his cross ring on his right hand) then it spread, thousands of little red dots all up his arm. At that point we upgraded the status from heat rash to the dreaded poison ivy. To which I am highly allergic and since I also have an allergy to Calamine lotion any sort of breakout usually ends up with me getting shots at the Doctor's office. But since I didn't lean up against the tree that I saw had poison ivy and I WAS NOT in the same city as the tombstones I thought I was fairly safe.

I was WRONG. It started as one little tiny bump on the inside of my bicep. Right about the place that a short sleeve shirt rubs against the inside of your arm. And I knew I wouldn't get sympathy from my hubby for a single little dot of what I thought was a bug bite when he had a HUGE rash of poison ivy on his arm. So I tried not to itch and kept silent. Now a week later I can't explain it. I have one or two little dots of hyper-itchy spots on more than a dozen locations on my body. Not a huge red rash but super annoying none the less. Especially since all of them seem to be located in high traffic areas that seem to be rubbed up against things all the time. And every time I do... they itch all the more. I am quietly going insane. And I really have no right to complain Matt has a higher percentage of rash spots on him and he swears they don't itch.... But I'm trying not to scratch in an effort to keep from rubbing my skin off here and nothing seems to help for longer than 2 1/2 min. I feel stupid for even complaining. I'm just waiting (not so patiently) for my itchy time to be up so that I can get back to normal.

So if you ever see me avoid poison ivy like, well you know the plague... it's with good reason.