Not on the Upswing

Greetings humans and most others,

Well, it appears that Mr. Nick has finally gotten enough medicine into himself for the poison ivy outbreak to stop spreading. While he is savvy about what is going to happen to him once the process begins, it is hard to make a doctor who hasn't dealt with him before understand what is going to take place. He finally got a good enough dose on Saturday after he awakened to find that he was breaking out on his back, legs and stomach. It is a bad sign for it to still be spreading after one round of medicine and a week's passing, although it is not unusual for it to keep cropping up after only a week. This is the first time that Missy Lesley has seen a full blown attack because Mr. Nick has learned to be super vigilant when he is outside. Somehow, he missed this batch.

Missy Linda told me, and people can verify this, that when he was a kid, Mr. Nick got it one time just walking from the car to the house without touching anything. It's like Mr. Nick said, "If someone has never had back trouble, depression or bad poison ivy, it is impossible for them to truly understand it." That may be true.

It seems that Missy Linda's job hunt results are not on the upswing either. She had an interview yesterday, but she knows that she won't get that job, she says. They have already interviewed applicants for a whole week, and they have another week's worth to do. She knows that a lot of people in a group that size are going to have better experience than she does. She also knows that she didn't really do a very good job when she was talking to the people. She would love to have that job though. She can hardly even envision a job with free medical insurance after three months! Better luck next time, I suppose. Right?

BTW, have any of you all seen any of these green deer? (See ads.)