http://www.politedissent.com/archives/160 a blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:50:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.politedissent.com/archives/160/comment-page-1#comment-420296 Sean Duggan Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:57:34 +0000 http://politedissent.com/archives/160#comment-420296 Och... this brings back memories of this one time as a kid when we picked up some horrible cases of poison ivy to the face after going to a petting zoo (we think the goat may have been munching on some and then licking faces based on the locations and who got it). It was the beginning of school, one of the my older brothers just starting middle school and our faces were covered with oozing blisters including an eye swollen shut for me. I still remember being terribly impressed by the fact that the doctor prescribed steroids (I don't remember which ones) to make sure that our faces grew back right. Or at least that's they way I remember it as a kid... Och… this brings back memories of this one time as a kid when we picked up some horrible cases of poison ivy to the face after going to a petting zoo (we think the goat may have been munching on some and then licking faces based on the locations and who got it). It was the beginning of school, one of the my older brothers just starting middle school and our faces were covered with oozing blisters including an eye swollen shut for me. I still remember being terribly impressed by the fact that the doctor prescribed steroids (I don’t remember which ones) to make sure that our faces grew back right. Or at least that’s they way I remember it as a kid…

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