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If there’s one within a hundred miles, I will find it.

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If you remember from a previous post, I’m highly susceptible to the dreaded brown tail moth rash. Seriously, if there’s one of those little bastards in my neighborhood, my town or even my county… it will find me and make me pay.

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Their hairs are microscopic and if you come in contact? You’ll know it within a few hours. Which is what happened to me after weeding my perennial bed the other day, even though I wore gloves and made a point to avoid brushing up against the tree.

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My knee…

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And arm a few hours after showering. I had the rash on my legs, my back, my stomach, my arms and especially my right knee. That section of flesh was positively on fire with uncontrollable itching… and by the next day?

* warning – if you’re eating while reading this, you might want to skip the next picture *

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My right knee looked like Mount Vesuvius, and not in a good way. Failing to understand why this particular body part suffered such an extreme reaction, I examined the pillow I was crouching on and sure enough… I had squished a moth to death on the right side and ground his toxic hairs deep into my epidermis.

Life has not really been worth living this week, and if you happen to have any extra rough grade sandpaper lying around… feel free to send it my way so I can rip off what’s left of my skin.

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39 thoughts on “If there’s one within a hundred miles, I will find it.”

  1. When I had erupting eczema as a child, all over my body, I had to wrar rubber gloves to make sure I did not scrstch in my sleep. It wasn’t perfect, but it sure helped. In the end I taught myself to bear the itching without scratching. My eczema ladted till I was in my 20s brfore it all went away.

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      1. Yup. I was born with eczema from toe to top of skull. My mother told me she could barely hold me to breastfeed me. But I learned to control it, and slowly it shrunk until it was just lumps on my arms abd cheeks, and then it disappeared. It was definitely a burden of sorts, but I learned how to live with it. It taught me a lot about living with adversity.
        I am glad yours goes away relatively quickly, though it seems like an eternity to you. Surely there must be a prescription ointment that works to speed recovery. Just as my eczema was almost gone, I remember my doctor giving me something new called Betnovate, or something close to that. It took the itch away. That was almost 50 years ago. Surely they have improved on that by now.

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      2. Believe it or not there is only one small pharmacy in the state that makes a spray to relieve the rash. You need a prescription to get it, which means scheduling a doctors appointment and by the time I get that, it will be gone.

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      3. No “Walk-In” clinics? Or can you not go to an Emergency Room to get a script? Cross the border, Rg. St. Stephen will have help for you. And you can probably get a medication in the local pharmacy.
        I really pity Americans that you do not have universal health care, everywhere! For-profit medicine makes no sense to me. Health care when you need it is not a privilege.

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      4. The emergency rooms are over crowded and understaffed and should only be used for emergencies. I suppose I could find a walk in clinic and pay full price, but I usually just itch.

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      5. I guess you are used to it, but it just seems so wrong to me. I mean, our system is not perfect (and it could be better, if our Conservative Party was not out to destroy it) but with everyone paying so that it is there when anyone needs it, the American system just seems heartless.

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      7. Lucky there are 330 mollion people in America. It doesn’t matter how many lives they ruin, or familues they bankrupt. There are always more patients to profit from. Maybe that’s why some states don’t want to allow abortions. The more people who are born, the customers they will eventually have

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      8. It’s not all bad. When my husband had triple bypass 5 years ago his care was phenomenal and between his military coverage and Medicare we didn’t pay one red cent.

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      9. You are obviously among the lucky ones. I spoke to another family on Word Press just the other day. The wife/mother got cancer, I think it was, and their insurance found a way to deny coverage. They went bankrupt. They are now living with his sister and her family, a member of the invisible homeless.

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      10. That’s horrible. And I do realize we’re blessed with excellent insurance coverage. Payback for 22 years military service I suppose.

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  8. Yikes! If I were you I’d be seeing if anything in the kitchen works. Yoghurt? Honey? Turmeric paste? Lavender oil or tea tree? Paw paw/Papaya? Maybe even something like Bonjela that teething babies use – something that makes it go numb? Good luck.

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  11. Oh my gosh. My skin itches and burns FOR you just looking at these photos.
    What else could you do to avoid this aside from staying IN THE HOUSE? Cover yourself in vaseline first?
    I hope by now you are feeling better.

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