Just chop my arm off please...........

Has anyone ever had poison ivy?

Yeah .......well I hadn't.

I woke up one morning with two little itchy spots on my wrist. I thought they were mosquito bites......so I scratched them. BIG MISTAKE.

If I could rewind and try to warn myself ......it'd be in slow motion. Me running towards and diving for myself as I shout out NOOOooooo! whilst my fingernails are poised above my itching arm.

What started out small has spread.....up my arm.......up my other arm........on my legs......on my stomache....on my chest, and hopefully it will stop at that. (not much more it could spread to anyways)

My oozing and weeping wounds became unbearable and rather nasty looking (still is) so we made a pit stop at the doctors office. She confirmed it as poison Ivy and the nurse proceeded to give me a shot. It helped, but in the middle of the night I woke up with an insane desire to rub my limbs with sand paper. So instead of exfoliating my infected skin, I scratched and rubbed it till it burned......and then I couldn't sleep, but eventually I did.

Hopefully it will shrivel and dry up post haste and not affect my weekend or coming trip.