Enjoy it while you can, and don't show off too much by handling it. You can become sensitized to it with repeated exposure or a large enough exposure.
Oh, and for what it's worth, people with suppressed immune systems also have less of a response to it...
It kinda suck not to as well - my mom and her sisters all depend on me to pull it out.
Even going to Easter dinner requires some manual labor before I'm allowed to eat my ham.
My stepdad had me make a thick paste made from lye soap to treat my nasty looking patches. When we would used oil based paints, the old man would trickle some of the naptha / gasoline / thinner used to clean the brushes / rollers and put that on the vine or chop a section off and put blue Tordon on that bastage. Same treatment for mulberry or stink elm.
I don't handle it on purpose simply because I don't want to risk transferring the oil to someone else but it is nice that I don't have to go out of my way to avoid it either. I'm not completely immune as I will still get a very mild reaction on occasion but only in the sensitive skin between my fingers or on the underside of my wrists and only if I handle a large main vine of an inch in diameter.
Oh, I'm pretty sure my immune system is good... or at least as good as has been for the last 35 years since I stopped having much of a reaction to it.
I really need to get some Tordon. I've got tons of volunteer oaks and black walnut coming up everywhere from the squirrels, not to mention mulberry and a few patches of poison ivy and some other kind of tree that I can't identify. We get a ton of them every year but I have yet to see a tree in the area that looks like them.
Just things to be aware of. I'm glad folks are non-reactive to it. I know too many people who gladly demonstrate how non-reactive they are any chance they get. Known a couple who ended up having extremely serious reactions as a result. Best just to avoid it in general and keep the lack of reaction as a backup in case of exposure.
Sounds like it really sucks to be allergic to poison ivy.
I've also used paint thinner with naptha to treat poison ivy. The dryers in the thinner that makes the paint set up will also help dry up poison ivy.My stepdad had me make a thick paste made from lye soap to treat my nasty looking patches. When we would used oil based paints, the old man would trickle some of the naptha / gasoline / thinner used to clean the brushes / rollers and put that on the vine or chop a section off and put blue Tordon on that bastage. Same treatment for mulberry or stink elm.
I've also used paint thinner with naptha to treat poison ivy. The dryers in the thinner that makes the paint set up will also help dry up poison ivy.