The Right Clothing

Any activity requires the right clothing as well as the right equipment. My preference is to keep it simple, but I digress. Yes, all polyprop or man-made fibers, but I digress again.

I just went to the surgeon to get a few head stitches out. Yes, probably either a byproduct of a very active lifestyle, or old age. My choice of garb was a red shirt to hide the blood. And brown pants to hide the...


-copyright 2014 by Willy.

Unintended Consequences

OK, so every few years I get these full-body hives ("Poison Ivy went Systemic").

I don't roll around Poison Ivy but I am always outside doing something: hiking, bushwacking, climbing, camping, backpacking and bicycling... besides trimming hedges, eradicating briers, cutting grass and bush-hogging fields. I get submerged in nature's fauna and flora. Getting scratched, scraped, bitten and stung is normal... it's the price to pay for outdoor activity.

The response has been Prednisone, a steroid.

It still means days of itching and a couple of weeks of rash... but Prednisone makes a young man out of me: No arthritis and no back pain, cardio is easier, weights go up, and I smile more.

I don't like the rash, but I love the solution!

-copyright 2014 by Willy.