This poison ivy won't go away! It's just plain evil. Needless to say I will never be working in the yard ever again...except maybe in the winter!
Things were going fine much of last week and the pill regimen was working. The bad thing, though was that it was only a 6 day regimen and on Friday, I took my last pill. Saturday night, the rashes began to appear again, but this timein huge 5-10 inch hives all over where the poison ivy had been. And they itched even worse this time!! So basically, I had a relapse. The worst part though was that it was very hard to breathe....something with the hives was heightening my asthma really bad.
Monday, I went back in to the doctors and they gave me a shot and got me back on a heavy regimen of prednisone. Sadly, they gave me too much! My regimen made my body feel on fire as my metabolism went crazy. Then, my heartbeat went crazy! So all Monday and through the night I was all hyped up and couldn't sleep at all. My body was on fire and just wouldn't go to sleep.
On Tuesday I went to the hospital where they lowered my dose and ran some checks on my heart to make sure everythign was ok. Whew! What an ordeal. I have come to conclude that poison ivy is the most evil thing on earth.
On a good note, I was able to somehow finish my first chapter of my book! I am so excited and am going to start working onthe second chapter this week. I feel very inspired to write now, and I think that's a great thing. I am hoping to get a lot of good headway in the book and eventually get this done!
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Holy cats, Colleeny! What a week you have had! If that stupid poison ivy dares to rear its itchy head again, I am SO kicking its ass!!!
And your writing is SO amazingly good! I don't know how I'm going to be able to wait for Chapter 2! I'm so very very proud of you!!!
Oh, and I forgot to mention that there is one thing your novel still needs.
And that thing... is more cowbell. :)
What a horrible experience with the poison ivy! I hate itchies! And I had my share of it last year with my drug allergies right before surgery, but nothing compared to your - although I did spend plenty of time in a hospital :)
Good to hear about your book - as they say, well begun is half done! I hope you will see it published someday so we can all read it.
I always thought you were hot, but on FIRE? Whoa!
You've been teasing about writing your book for a long time, I can't freakin' wait!!
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