Mowed fields all day, ended up at emergency clinic

[MossRoad]

Hay Dude, glad you are better. Hopefully it'll never happen again.

 

[k0ua]

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Milky Way

The dark chocolate ones are my favorite..

 

[/pine]

IMO the best candy bars are found in little neighborhood stores in the cooler next to the ice cream bars...!

 

[Hay Dude]

Thanks for all the replies and well wishes. Im not saying its over, but Im still clear as of 12 on Friday afternoon, or is it 12 moring? :confused2:
I will check back if I tun red again. :ashamed:

 

[txdon]

Thanks for the update.

 

[Bird]

Haven't we all had some kind of allergies at different times?

My first experience was when I was about 22 years old, single, living alone, working an evening shift in the Dallas Post Office. I got off work, and got home about midnight, and got in the habit of fixing myself some bacon and eggs before getting a shower and going to bed. And about an hour or less after going to bed, I would break out with great big welts all over my body; looked like I'd been beaten with a belt, and itch terribly. It was an every night situation. So I saw a doctor who told me it was obviously an allergy and that he could run a lot of expensive tests OR I could experiment myself. So the first thing I did was quit eating at night when I got home; no more problem. Then one night when I got home I ate 2 boiled eggs and really suffered. Now I'd eaten eggs all my life so I have no idea how I became allergic to them. But I avoided them like the plague for more than a year, then eventually went back to eating them with no ill effects.

On one trip to Alaska in our fifth-wheel about 1991-92, I awoke one night in the middle of the night, itching all over intolerably. First I got in a tub of hot water that didn't help at all. And finally I called the Anchorage police department and asked directions to the nearest hospital. They offered to send me an ambulance, but I told them I thought I could drive myself, and did. At the hospital, they promptly gave me an injection that pretty quickly relieved the problem. I still have no idea what caused it. We had just been visiting my brothers there in town in Anchorage.

Then in the late ninety's I was mowing with a small bush hog and my little Kubota across the road from our house in Navarro County. It was brush and weeds higher than the hood on the little tractor and I began to feel like my face was swelling, so I put the tractor in the shop and went in the house to look in a mirror and my face was swollen and appeared to have some yellow liquid oozing out. I went to the emergency room and another injection that fixed the problem fairly quickly. Now I just had to go back a few days later and try mowing over there again to see if the problem would recur, but it did not.

Sometimes it just seems that there is no explanation.

 

[MossRoad]

When I was a kid, my friends and I would get poison ivy pretty regularly, tramping through the woods and all. Back then, it was just a few itchy bumps that went away in a couple days. As I get older, when I get it, it's bigger bumps and patches, itches for more than a few days, and sticks around for about 2 weeks. Similar thing happened to my father. It never bothered him until he got into his 60's. Then it was brutal for him. Huge patches for weeks spreading all over the place, not just at point of contact. Guess I have that to look forward to.

 

[Hay Dude]

Poison ivy only affects me very small areas and it’s very manageable. I’m not real susceptible to it. Probably had it 50 times and never much more than a couple little bumps on my fingers.
This covered 40% of my body in a few hours and my left eye looked like I was on the wrong end of a left jab for 3 rounds. My lips would swell up and go back down in minutes.
I think I inhaled a large amount of allergic weed mist. The fact that I got it after Monday and Tuesday mowing which had more weeds than grass is convincing me. I didn’t walk though any of those fields. I sat in 2 different HVAC cab tractors and cut similar grass/weeds mixes and broke out same ways, only difference was during the Tuesday breakout, I was still on a steroid shot. I was told the shot lasted weeks to a month. Then after taking the oral steroid Wednesday morning, it subsided again. :confused3: wouldn’t the shot still have been protecting me? :confused3:
That’s the only thing I can’t make sense of. Seems like to me the shot would have kept me from the second outbreak 24-30 hours later, but I had to take the oral steroid to get rid of it again. By the way, after Tuesday early AM breakout and taking the oral steroid, I cut 30 acres of grass on an open zero turn mower, BUT it was pretty much all lawn, no noxious weed mist.

:confused2::confused2::confused2:

 

[MossRoad]

Had to have been disturbing to see that reaction so fast.

 

[5030]

Tough getting old....