Poison ivy

This plant, poison ivy, figured large in my life at one time.  I have heard horror stories about getting smoke of fires burning the plant into one's lungs or throat and other difficulties.  I had my own first outbreak in about my third grade year.  From then to about age 20, I often got an outbreak, despite being able to identify the plant and wanting to avoid it.

When we were a young married couple with two tender-skinned girl children, I got a summer job at a large Boy Scout camp.  The four of us lived in a little cabin in a field with lots of poison ivy.  That is where I first learned that my wife had never had any trouble with the plant.  To protect me and our girls, she tore many of the plants out of the ground and we got rid of them.  

I am much older now and haven't had trouble with outbreaks on my skin for years but I don't trust it.  I am certainly not going to flaunt my skin or tempt the plant in any other way.  I plan to stay the heck away from it.