a 1st time for everything...

Sometimes that's a good thing & sometimes it's not!

I certainly wish there had not been a 1st time for my encounter with poision ivy.

Last Tuesday & Thursday I worked on digging up the mounds of day lilies on either side of our front porch.

I've never liked them there, and usually only a handful of them bloom.

I dug them up, turned the soil, added some Nature's Helper, and replaced the lilies with more beautiful hostas & Purple Queen .

Somewhere in the process, I exposed myself to some poision ivy.

I grew up in the middle of a wooded area surrounded by farm land.

I never got poision ivy there!

Funny I should encounter it now...

It's not really funny though...

my right arm looks horrible,

and it itches like CRAZY which is making me CRAZY.

I'm self-treating my ailment with a concoction of creams and Benadryl.
I had forgotten just how sleepy Benadryl makes me, so I'm trying only to take it at night.

I can't wait to be itch-free again!