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Lepplady

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My kids and grandkids got cool mixed up genes like that. I'm brown over brown, married a very pale guy with blue eyes. 2 out of my 3 kids got blue eyes. My oldest got my brown. His son, his namesake, got hazel green eyes even though both his parents have brown (their mom's Puerto Rican). That's not a shadow in his right (our left) eye. It's a swirl of brown.
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And he looks just like his dad. Who looks just like his dad.
Both of my other two grandsons have brown eyes.
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The youngest keeps his hair long on the top and back. He rocks the look.

My granddaughter got those amazing blue eyes, more like my grandmother's than either her father's or grandfather's.
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Lepplady said:
My kids and grandkids got cool mixed up genes like that. I'm brown over brown, married a very pale guy with blue eyes. 2 out of my 3 kids got blue eyes. My oldest got my brown. His son, his namesake, got hazel green eyes even though both his parents have brown (their mom's Puerto Rican). That's not a shadow in his right (our left) eye. It's a swirl of brown.
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And he looks just like his dad. Who looks just like his dad.
Both of my other two grandsons have brown eyes.
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The youngest keeps his hair long on the top and back. He rocks the look.

My granddaughter got those amazing blue eyes, more like my grandmother's than either her father's or grandfather's.
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Good looking family. :)
 
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Okay. So. Those weren't a couple of spider bites on my arm. It's a whole patch of angry red bumps all up my arm, and a couple spots on my face. And a couple on my legs for good measure. Looks like I got into some poison oak the other day when I was out gardening. The itch is MADDENING!!
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Yikes! I used to get such a bad reaction to that stuff I'd need a steroid shot! Hope you get some relief soon LL!
 
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Lepplady said:
Okay. So. Those weren't a couple of spider bites on my arm. It's a whole patch of angry red bumps all up my arm, and a couple spots on my face. And a couple on my legs for good measure. Looks like I got into some poison oak the other day when I was out gardening. The itch is MADDENING!!
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I hate that stuff. Oak, Ivy, or Sumac, if I'm in the woods, it WILL find me somehow.
 
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Lepplady said:
Okay. So. Those weren't a couple of spider bites on my arm. It's a whole patch of angry red bumps all up my arm, and a couple spots on my face. And a couple on my legs for good measure. Looks like I got into some poison oak the other day when I was out gardening. The itch is MADDENING!!
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I think a poultice made out of oatmeal and water, applied nice and thick, is supposed to help
(and if you get hungry you can lick your arm!) (kidding of course) - about the licking, not the poultice.
 
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Neesy said:
I think a poultice made out of oatmeal and water, applied nice and thick, is supposed to help
(and if you get hungry you can lick your arm!) (kidding of course) - about the licking, not the poultice.
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LOL!
In the wee hours of the night when the neighbor's pups had me awake, I discovered that Chloraseptic actually works pretty well. Make a paste of Chloraseptic and baking soda, slap it on, and it works wonders.
I still picked up some hydrocortizone cream, though.
 
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Lepplady said:
LOL!
In the wee hours of the night when the neighbor's pups had me awake, I discovered that Chloraseptic actually works pretty well. Make a paste of Chloraseptic and baking soda, slap it on, and it works wonders.
I still picked up some hydrocortizone cream, though.
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Not that it will help this time Lepp, but a couple of times in the last ten years, I've had to go in for steroid shots because I'm severely allergic to poison oak or ivy. Once it gets into my bloodstream it will pop up in random spots all over, even in areas that weren't exposed to the sap. The doctor i saw the last time, about five years ago, gave me a strategy that I guess I never really thought about it. That doctor told me that the sap from oak, ivy, or sumac takes about three to six hours to soak into your skin, give or take. He told me to buy this stuff called Ivarest, which has antihistamines that slow down the reaction of the sap with your skin. He advised if I could get home as quickly as possible, scrub the areas with Ivarest that I thought might have had contact with the poison ivy, then jump in the shower and scrub down thoroughly with soap, I had a good chance of the sap not having time to get into my bloodstream. I guess there is something to what he said, because I haven't had a case in over five years now. I'm in the woods a lot fishing so I know I've walked thru it several times and I always make sure to use Ivarest and take a quick shower when I get home. So far, so good.
 
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Not that it will help this time Lepp, but a couple of times in the last ten years, I've had to go in for steroid shots because I'm severely allergic to poison oak or ivy. Once it gets into my bloodstream it will pop up in random spots all over, even in areas that weren't exposed to the sap. The doctor i saw the last time, about five years ago, gave me a strategy that I guess I never really thought about it. That doctor told me that the sap from oak, ivy, or sumac takes about three to six hours to soak into your skin, give or take. He told me to buy this stuff called Ivarest, which has antihistamines that slow down the reaction of the sap with your skin. He advised if I could get home as quickly as possible, scrub the areas with Ivarest that I thought might have had contact with the poison ivy, then jump in the shower and scrub down thoroughly with soap, I had a good chance of the sap not having time to get into my bloodstream. I guess there is something to what he said, because I haven't had a case in over five years now. I'm in the woods a lot fishing so I know I've walked thru it several times and I always make sure to use Ivarest and take a quick shower when I get home. So far, so good.
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Dude, I wrote that down. I've got a lot of yard work to do and I pretty much guarantee those vines are spreading along the ground EVERYWHERE. I'm going to totally take that to heart. Thank you.
 
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Lepplady said:
You never know. Those genes can hide for generations then pop up when you least expect them.
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That's true! My brother has a cleft chin and no one could figure out where he got it - from either side. Then we came across an old photo of my maternal grandma's mother (who died during childbirth :( ). It was the only known photo of her, and there it was - the dimple chin!
 
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Lepplady said:
Dude, I wrote that down. I've got a lot of yard work to do and I pretty much guarantee those vines are spreading along the ground EVERYWHERE. I'm going to totally take that to heart. Thank you.
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Same here. Mowing season is fast approaching and my property line borders the woods so there always seems to be oak and ivy growing somewhere on my lot....have a good week.
 
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