Poison Ivy

 If you grow up in a place where you spend lots of time outdoors exploring a forest, getting poison ivy is a part of your childhood experience.  I remember wrapping my itching fingers with tissues to keep them covered and not rubbing against each other.  Funny how scratching a little itch between one’s fingers can bring back memories.  There was one time I woke up in the morning and couldn’t open my eyes.  That was the time I got a steroid shot.

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