The dumbest thing I've done in a long time

We live in a townhouse. We only have a 6 foot x 3 foot patch of land that is ours to deal with. We are terribly negligent gardeners, so by Monday, when our next door neighbor was out gardening, ours looked like a small jungle. I was embarassed enough that I went outside to deal with it.

About half an hour into the work, I looked at the plant in my bare hands and realized that it looked an awful lot like poison ivy. Poison ivy to which I am exquisitely sensitive. Stupidly, I thought to myself, "Well, I'm already kneee and elbow deep in it, might as well finish the job."

Now it is 60 hours later. I have the worst case of poison ivy I or the physician's assistant in my doctor's office have ever seen. I have rashes fully up to my elbows on both arms and less scary ones crawling up both legs to my knees.

I was dumb enough to wear sandles, so the tops of my feet are red and swollen. I must have wiped my face, because my entire face is covered in a painful, itchy, hot red mask of torture.

The PA had a really hard time not laughing at me. I would, too, if it weren't so uncomfortable.