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Spent a day mountain biking just after landing my current job back in 2000. It had just rained and we were sliding all over the place, often clawing at vegetation to get up hills. At some point in the day I guess I scratched my balls.

Guess what? Poison ivy...poison oak...I'm VERY allergic to the stuff. Arms and legs swelled up and were covered with scaly, oozing scabs for two weeks. I took two benedryl every 4 hours just to keep from tearing my skin off. We hadn't picked our health insurance yet, so I couldn't afford to go to the doctor. I just had to suffer through it, wearing long sleeves and copious amounts of gauze bandaging.