{"id":9087,"date":"2023-04-03T07:43:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T11:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2023-05-01T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:43:22","slug":"questionable-medical-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/?p=9087","title":{"rendered":"Questionable Medical Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By Cameron J. Kirby<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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There are certain times in your life when you look back and recognize the exact origin of your current misery; the poorly made decisions that eventually flourished. The chickens came home to roost\u2026 or in my case: turkeys.<\/span><\/p>

We were camping along one of the many tributaries of the Columbia River, hoping for salmon but settling for carp, whiskey, and loud nights filled with terrible music.<\/span><\/p>

Since the fish weren\u2019t biting, I decided to try my luck further upland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The next morning, I donned my camo, grabbed my decoys, and started hiking up the verdant canyon to my turkey hole. Like many great turkey habitats this one was littered with oak trees; I found a solid trunk with some cover and settled in for a day of calling.<\/span><\/p>

The unfortunate thing about oak trees is that their shoots resemble another Northwest native: Poison Oak. This spot had both the former and the latter in abundance, which I didn\u2019t realize until well after I threw my saturated camo on my sleeping bag, pillow, and clothes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

It started out in small patches that eventually kept expanding outward like a brushfire. Crimson splotches traced from my crown to my feet. Eventually, after three weeks, I heeded my wife\u2019s advice and saw a Doctor. She asked if I was running through the woods as God made me. I told her it was my best attempt at channeling my inner Sasquatch.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I used the prescriptions, calamine lotion, and everything else I could think of\u2026 until I read about an old folk remedy, and this is where the questionable medical advice comes into play. The only reprieve I experienced was using border-line scalding water on the afflicted areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

I\u2019m not a doctor, and my research was limited, but from what I read the heat somehow releases the histamine all at once and prevents the strong sensation to itch. In my experience the break lasted for three to four hours.<\/span><\/p>

The best way to describe the instant relief was orgasmic. I don\u2019t know if it helped in the long term, but when I\u2019m feeling especially masochistic I miss having poison oak, just to feel that respite again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Silver linings are everywhere; sometimes you just need to scald yourself to find them.<\/span><\/p>



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is a native to the Pacific Northwest who enjoys exploring the wild places with his family and friends. As an avid outdoorsman and naturalist, he enjoys hunting, fishing, a good book and an even better whiskey.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are certain times in your life when you look back and recognize the exact origin of your current misery; the poorly made decisions that eventually flourished. The chickens came home to roost\u2026 or in my case: turkeys. We were camping along one of the many tributaries of the Columbia River, hoping for salmon but settling\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hunting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Toxicodendron_diversilobum_foliage_at_Samuel_P._Taylor_State_Park-scaled.jpg","acf":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9087"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9345,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions\/9345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feathersandwhiskey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}