It's been a week to remember! I climbed the ladder up the backside of the barn on Friday...armed with gloves and managed to pull down the 15 foot vines. Immediately saw dust flying everywhere , which made me cringe at the time and I told dad to stay far back so it wouldn't get in his lungs or on his skin....and I would shower as soon as the vines were down on the ground. Well, we got company immediately (no shower) Then , someone else came bringing me sorghum stalks..fresh cut and seed for next year to plant. And my mind went to sorghum mollasses production and the shower was forgotten.
(By the way., all my days effort into squeezing the stalks with my champion juicer or the meat grinder was total failure..an effort of hours of futility! I still have to buy molasses!)
Night came and I felt alittle itchy , but was already in bed..no shower. Next morning my eyes were practically swelled shut and I had a bad itching rash above my gloveline, and under my shirt collar and it was looking like poison ivy blisters....yeap, it spread like poison ivy too. It ended up on my hands and fingers and I looked like I was made up to go halloweening as a monster. Missed church Sunday, etc... Finally went to the doctor..last resort(Wed) today and got cortizone pills, because it is still spreading.Hopefully that will get it under control.....but what else will the cortizone do????
The doctor said it is a small dose and not many people react to it ...Pray for Aunt Bean, I usually react to everything!!! Anyway, the mucuna beans work well, and I am trying a tincture of steamed , halved mucunas...just to see if it will work. Mucunas are definitely more concentrated with l-dopa. Don't think they will be growing up the back side of the barn again though. They worked ok growing in tall corn and I didn't react to picking the beans from them..it was just the pulling down of the tall stalks that got me! Other than that....NEWS.....a neighbor has offered to give me a large greenhouse that they are not using anymore, if we can move it. It will take alot of guys and determination to do it. It's a large one made of pipes and 2 ply plastic that hasn't been used for several years.
Always something going on...no boredom on the farm. GOD is good. Blessings