Beware of Gardening

I can't sleep.  I'm too itchy.  I've been itchy for several days actually.  I figured I had poison ivy but I wasn't sure since I've never had it before.  Plus shouldn't it be subsiding by now?  I've been itchy for about 2 weeks and it just seems to be getting worse.  Tonight since I can't go to sleep I googled "itchy red skin rash"  I scared the crap out of myself.  Were there mites somewhere?   Do I have shingles (my grandma had them back in May)?  I had no idea so many things could cause a skin rash.  After more searching and looking at my rash, which is a few tiny blister like bumps on my fingers and then a red rash on my sides, I have self diagnosed myself as having poison oak.  I figure that I weeded it out, hence touching the plant, direct contact is the blisters on my fingers.  I likely rested my hands on my hips/sides and got the toxic itchy stuff on my clothes!  The rash appears in your thicker skin later so it really is getting worse but probably still from the original exposure.  This could last up to 6 weeks!!!  I can think of several suspect plants in the yard most of which are in my neighbor's "garden" (more like weed garden) behind my rose bushes.  I suppose I could say they warned me BUT they could also get it out of their yard.  There is so much irony in the fact that I've been gardening so much to avoid using the computer and then I end up using the computer to diagnose my gardening poison exposure.  I'll ponder that while I itch.