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Sprkplug and Yolk:

I'm in the "not affected by poison ivy" group - until last Spring. I was cutting a LOT of storm damaged trees down, and one warm day I cut a bunch of trees that had a LOT of poison ivy growing up into the trees. The vines were over 1" thick on the trunks. I did get a small spot on the inside of one elbow that itched and had small sores. I thought it was from scratching so much, but it probably was poison ivy. My arms were covered in sawdust for most of the day, and I was sweating pretty good to boot. It took a while to figure out what it was since I've never been bothered by it.

When I was a kid, playing outside in the woods, my friends would be affected by it, but I never was. When turkey hunting in Ca. one day, when the sun came up my friend and I were sitting in a patch of poison oak. In a few days she had symptoms on her ankles and wrists - I had none.

As for the flu shot, I think that it has a lot to do to each individuals exposure, and their immune system. I think some people are easier "targets" than others, just like some people have allergies and some don't. I noticed that I would get sick more often when I was burning the candle at both ends.

Now that my schedule has slowed down a bit during the winter, the colds are few and far between.