Last Tuesday at our Scout meeting our SPL, Michael Shepherd announced that he had poison ivy. It was big news, because of all the camp outs and all the cases, everyone else had gotten it, except Michael.We go to the Ordeal on Friday and ASM, Hugh B. Hall holds out his arm and I thought it was poison ivy. He is 65 and never had poison ivy. Quite unusual, but everyone else who looked at his arm agreed, it indeed was poison ivy.
Tuesday after Devan's Eagle Ceremony Hugh B. had been to the doctor and it wasn't poison ivy. It was a spider bite! You could see the little fang marks. :
It seems that he had his arms around a plant that he was moving and it must have happened then.
That was the first spider bite case I had ever seen and like others, misdiagnosed it.
Lesson learned: Always seek professional medical attention.
