In a message dated 11/20/2002 2:02:26 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Glad I never had to go through it again - head to toe and places I never > knew about. It lasted about a week. I think that the worst case of poison-ivy reaction I ever heard of was a friend of ours back in NJ some 30 or 35 years ago. She and her husband and some friends were out hiking, and she needed to "use the facilities." Unfortunately she picked the wrong leaves to use for toilet paper, and the resulting eruption kept her lying on her back for a week or more afterwards. Somewhere I remember reading about a woman in somewhat the same situation who got bitten on the bare backside by a rattlesnake. This was in the days when they were still recommending tourniquets for snakebites, and nobody could figure out where to put the tourniquet. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr