Mowed fields all day, ended up at emergency clinic

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
What's important is that you're still out there every day... and coming back to check in at night. :thumbsup:

 

[k0ua]

That's a very serious subject with the manufacturer. My youngest son is an engineer at a Mars candy factory. You can rest assured that it is next to impossible for a Milky Way bar to have been exposed to nuts. Mars doesn't make any candy with nuts in the factory he's at. Nuts are strictly prohibited on the company property. The company store doesn't sell any candy (made in other factories) that have nuts. If he carried his lunch he couldn't even have a PB sandwich or nuts on his salad.

And I can understand why. One peanut snuck into a Milky way could be a multi million dollar lawsuit.

 

[dragoneggs]

Been tested? Dry cough is indicative of the you know what....

I came back from a business trip to Singapore the day before Valentine's Day. The hotel I stayed in had already had a case of CV. Everywhere I went, everyone was being temp checked. Restaurants, metro train, etc. When I came back my wife threatened me (in jest) that she was going to quarantine me to our house and she would take a two week vacation south for some sunshine.

She thinks I may have had it. And I did get kind of sick upon my return but that isn't unusual for me to get run down after a two week intense business trip to Asia which I do often. She didn't come down with anything. But that said, my chronic cough has been present for years. One thing I do know my cough isn't from COVID-19. Do I have sellable antibodies? That might be worth testing for! :laughing:

 

[Diggin It]

Who would put peanut butter in a chocolate cookie?

PB and chocolate go together like blue and jeans. They're made for each other.

And now, my chronic cough gets me dirty looks in public!

Been tested? Dry cough is indicative of the you know what....

My chronic cough has been around a lot longer than 'it' has.

and are constantly dirty, usually only getting washed when Mother Nature breaks out a heavy rain storm.

That's the only time any of my vehicles or equipment get washed.

 

[Ford850]

All the Toolcat guys are smart......like me.
So I was in the M126x today tedding hay and I noticed my roll of paper towels was chewed on and there was some mouse terds behind the seat :yuck: :yuck:
I know they can make you sick, but I didnt break out today at all. Now is this because the Prednisone is keeping the reaction away? I wont know until a while after I stop taking the pills. :confused2:
The brown tailed moth is interesting....
I still think it was a mist I inhaled from a heavy, noxious field Im in the process of rehabbing. I remember Monday, I could smell the mist from those 15 swaths of shredded crappy weeds.
I still think it was an inside out rash.

I feel fine, but I dont know what will happen after the roids wear off.

I agree. You were in two different tractors on two different days and had the reaction both times. What was the common denominator? Same weed mist in the air.

 

[5030]

We farm 370 acres on 22 different properties in 3 counties and 2 states. My tractors and equipment are left in fields for days at a time and I don稚 have cats traveling with them. Sometimes mice just show up and do their thing, wether it痴 1 mile to 25 miles from the storage barn
I知 sure yours are neater and cleaner than mine. Probably have the cabs vacuumed couple times a week and hoods waxed.
Mine get used to their absolute limits and are constantly dirty, usually only getting washed when Mother Nature breaks out a heavy rain storm.

I will get rid of the mouse droppings I saw, but I don稚 think that痴 the reason I had the break out.

I farm remote fields myself and my tractors also sit away from home quite a bit. No, they don't get waxed, why wax a faded to Mary Kay pink Kubota anyway? They all get washed when they get serviced however. I don't like working on grimy mechanicals. When they get serviced, I blow the cabs out with an air gun and in the field, I'll take a whisk broom and sweep the mud and junk off the floor.

I've never liked a cluttered with junk cab. My SOP in a cab is the FM transceiver and a roll of ever present toilet paper. One never knows when it's field fertilizer time do they?

Wife buys me these nifty rolls of TP in a hard plastic dispenser. That way it stays clean until I need it...

My friend down the road farms 1100 acres and his equipment comes to the barn every night unless they are out in a rain event and then it sits in the field.

I run my equipment hard too. I just have a maintenance schedule and I stick to it.

One thing I bought recently that I really like is a 'Foam Cannon' I can put on the business end of my pressure washer. I 'foam' the tractors and rinse it off. The detergent foam really cuts the accumulated chaff, road dust and mud and makes life easier for me. I use ZEP degreaser on the mechanical's before service. Like that stuff too.

No pretty faces here. No lawn ornaments or poser tractors either. If they become an issue, they go down the road.

 

[riptides]

....
I feel fine, but I dont know what will happen after the roids wear off.

You get roid rage. LOL.

 

[5030]

You get roid rage. LOL.

......................

 

[MossRoad]

You get roid rage. LOL.

I was thinking that, too....


HULK SMASH!

Probably not those kinds of steroids, though. :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Milky way is just as good, and no "poison"

Work rest or play
Milky Way

 

[MossRoad]

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

 

[k0ua]

Work rest or play
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....