Wedding went well! They're married!

[learnteach]

The dang poison oak is still spreading.  Cousin  J has slathered me in zinc oxide with menthol, which hurts wherever the skin was broken.  

Ow. 

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[katanubis.livejournal.com]

Take it from a doctor, if you've got poison oak, it shouldn't *still* be spreading. Unless you've been re-exposed, there's something wrong.

For example, shingles looks a lot like poison oak and it does tend to spread. (You definitely don't want steroids on it either, as it will make it worse.)

Also, if you started out with poison oak, but then got a secondary infection, it might look similar to the original exposure, just spread out from the original exposure. (Bad skin strep infections can do this, as can staph infections.)

So, please go get it checked out. You don't want to end up like Jim Henson (who waited until his infection was too far spread to survive.)