I'm never hunting again

I've said this dozens of times

Sounds like you sat naked on a rotten log full of chiggers, and then jerked off with the juice from a poison ivy vine. I am actually surprised you're not dead.

Seriously: I had this employee from New Zealand many years ago. And he had zero exposure to poison ivy growing up. Had not built up any immunity to it. First thing he did when he got here was bought an old crappy house with an overgrown backyard. Spent the first weekend pulling vines off the fence row.

By Monday he was in the hospital. But Tuesday he was in intensive care. He nearly died. He had it in his lungs. The reaction was so bad he almost had to get skin grafts. He has scars to this day.

TLDR: Could have been worse.

Sounds like hunting AIDS

I was close to this after cutting vines off a fence with a weedeater. Turned out to be poison ivy. Face swole up, hands, nutts. Several shots alcohol in bathwater and every type of cream in north america.

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Can't believe no one else has asked about the giardia,

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My 12yo daughter went on a school sponsored canoe trip on the MS River last fall. They camped on a sandbar and she swam and played in the water.

She got giardia and it was like a 2 or 3 month situation. She went from like 70 pounds to like 65 pounds. And she was already skinny as a rail. I think the trip was in September and it was basically Christmas before she was feeling better.

Stop jerking off in the stand. Poison ivy oil only affects areas it’s spread to by touch.

You know naked and afraid is just a tv show, right? You can wear clothes in the woods and bring water and shite with you.

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Can't believe no one else has asked about the giardia, which is the worst part by far.

Was this diagnosed? Were you drinking from streams?

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Yeah, don't drink from the creek. I usually take a bottle of water and 24 beers with me.

I'm to the point that I take like 3 showers a day at the camp and constantly change clothes.