Ok, soooo....Ive handled tomato plants for the last 8 years with no problem other than my hands turning green from them...Cilantro I have growing but only seedlings and I havent been lugging them around. I HAVE been touching and doing lots of cutting down of tree limbs that I can get with a pair of pruners and carrying them to put them into a pile. Ive been carrying around fertilizer and miracle grow garden soil bags...You know, now that I think of it they say you should use gardening gloves when touching miracle grow, and me being the "die-hard" gardener that thinks "Gloves?!, I dont need no stinkin' gloves!" and then working barehanded all day long and taking a shower hours later after coming in...Hmmm....I wonder if its the miracle grow.... It bites because now my doctor wants me to take steroids and they make me MORE itchy and act like im on speed. Im really dreading taking them... To make matters even worse is she found a lump in my neck that she wants to "wait a couple weeks to see if it goes away and if it doesnt, I need to get it worked up" So now im worried... BLAH!!!!! -cass

I would suspect it was probably due to heat stress -- you've had an extremely hot, record-breaking summer, I believe. A lot of plants will not set fruit well or at all under conditions of extreme heat -- peppers, eggplants, and tomatos definitely won't, and I suspect the same is true about squashes. Hopefully, with the cooler weather, perhaps you'll still have time to get a squash or two. Other possibilities include insufficient calcium in the soil, just like tomato blossom end rot, and excessive nitrogen.

I had incisions in front of and behind each ear plus one underneath chin. Have seen my PS three times and he says the lumps and hardness is scar tissue and will go away. I read that same info on line but it just scares me. Recommendation was to massage tenderly. Wore the neck/headwrap for 10 days per Dr instructions. I guess I just worry about things going wrong. Reputable Dr. but wanted to know if anyone else experienced this. At least you didn't but mine was a complete separation of the skin from muscle to tighten up skin.

You're in my prayers as always. (((Kat))) Wish you didn't have to go thru this, but I'm hoping it puts you back into that 100 year remission.