I got it horribly bad as a kid. Always had a span during the summer when some part of me looked like I had massive chemical burns. Eyes swelled shut, fingers swollen to half again their normal size and covered in blisters, legs raw and weeping, terrible stuff.
Then in my late teens I seemed to have built a resistance and rarely had a reaction and when I did it was just a few bumps or a mild rash.
Now after I’d moved to a poison ivy free zone for 10 years and came back home I seem to get it just as badly as when I was a little guy. Guess my resistance went away since I wasn’t using it.
