| kachingchingpow |
08-26-2007 12:42 |
My brother just brought me a case of Yeungling Black & Tan back from PA. Good stuff. We can't get it in GA due to the ridiculous distribution monopoly here. On of my parents friends... our next door neighbor growing up, lived in Pottstown until he went off to WWII. He grew up with the Yeunglings, and always had the lager over at his house. Back in the day when you could only get in S. PA.
On topic... I struggled with the damn'd Ivy for 10 days. It covered my legs from where the top of my boots stopped to the bottom of my shorts. I spent $90 on Technu, Zanfel, Benadryl, Calamine, you name it. The Technu and Zanfel "felt great" when scrubbed on in the shower. It probably helped some, but I had it way to bad to be completely effective. It was probably 14 hours from the time I contacted the stuff until I got a shower, and I was doing a lot of outside work in 100+ degree heat. At the 10 day mark and new blisters still coming up (just in the areas that made contact), I called my Dr. at noon, got a shot at 2 and it was scabbing over and inflammation reduced 75% by the next morning. They gave me some anti-histamine which I only took for 2 days, a methy-prednisolone pack, which I never took and some steroid creme. That was a week ago, and all I have is the purplish looking scarring which I'm sure will fade over time. I haven't had the stuff like that since I was a kid, but I knew the entire time I was in contact with it. I thought I had "grown out" of the allergy. I'll be damned if I'm going to crawl into it like that again, and if I do, I'm just going straight to the Dr. for the shot. Heck, doing so would've saved me about $100 in BS pharmaceuticals and 10 days trying to tough it out.
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