3:00 snapshot #743

[urbpan]

Alexis tests if she's allergic to poison ivy by pulling it up WITH HER BARE HANDS.

Comments

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

Jesus! And? Is she okay? I say this as someone who became allergic to juniper, after years and years of gardening, then installing lighting around people's property. Pretty innocuous, juniper. Until I broke out from touching it.

Seriously, is she okay?

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

I am so allergic I got a rash from looking at that.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Several days on and no reaction.

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

Oh. Okay then. I didn't know that picture was taken days ago. Sheesh. Tryna give me a heart attack or sumpin'?

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

yikes. you know allergic reactions can develop anytime, and the likelihood increases with repeated exposures, right?

i'm not allergic to poison ivy either (afaik, never reacted, was documented falling asleep in a patch some years ago) but i don't go out of my way to encounter it, either.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

lol, it's been a week now, and i'm still here. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

But you know, it's a thing where you gradually get sensitized over time, so you can have no reaction, no reaction, no reaction and then one day: reaction.

But OTOH, I guess the fact that you don't have a reaction right now means at least you don't need to sweat it if you brush against it. But I wouldn't keep up the bare-handed weed removal.

(But in fact, what do I know? You might stay completely immune)

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

i will be cautious!

[djinnthespazz.livejournal.com]

That's just nuts. She will develop the allergy eventually, she shouldn't push it sooner. Silly girl.