Carol Levesque's Blog

A few weeks ago I was in Niagara Falls, NY. We went to an abandon factory and to get into it we had to go through some tall grass. My first thought was “I better avoid the poison ivy”. I was wearing shorts so I figured this could be a problem.

Well after a few days I thought I was lucky and that I had avoided it. A week after I had been there
I had two scratches on my legs and I started to itch my legs… a lot. Went to Vegas and it got worse (hot weather don’tcha know). Then this past week the itching was more unbearable and I used Polysporin Itch Relief Lotion and the itching would go away, but then I noticed some bubbling and it started to look infected. Then I bought some Polysporin Complete (with antibiotics and pain relief) and used that on my leg for about a day.

Well today I woke up and the pain wasn’t going away and the infection looked like it was spreading. So I went to the clinic and the doctor said it was poison ivy. Plus it was infected (due to my scratching I guess) so I’m on some serious drugs now for the poison ivy and the infection. Oh Joy.

Pictures of my leg:

Also note that I am on Cloxacillin Sodium (penicillin) and Prednisone as well as Fucidin Cream to apply to my wounds.