{"id":2303,"date":"2010-10-18T21:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T04:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2010-10-18T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T04:07:32","slug":"this-was-an-interesting-evening-jane-in-the-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/this-was-an-interesting-evening-jane-in-the-er\/","title":{"rendered":"This was an Interesting Evening: Jane in the ER&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;from trimming a plant.<br \/>\nIt seems everything about euphorbias (spurge) is poisonous. She had trimmed the euphorbia we brought in, and began having eye pain. A fast check of the internet turned up &#8220;sap in the eye: blindness,&#8221; seeds&#8211;death. Fumes off the living plant can be harmful to the eyes. Etc. We called OSG for advice and headed for the ER.<\/p>\n<p>Two hours later and several hundred dollars the worse, I fear, we are back. Jane is fine. We at least provided a fast education on euphorbias for the ER staff. A stain test turned up no lesion or abrasion, and Jane&#8217;s action of a warm water rinse proved the right thing to have done.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;take it from us, dear friends. We have swept the floor to be sure there are no seeds for the cats to get into: the plant will be trimmed outside the house, wearing gloves and goggles, and all pieces discarded. <\/p>\n<p> And Jane has a prescription and a wad of instructions. <\/p>\n<p>We are very glad to have found out about euphorbias, which are a gloriously beautiful green plant, the delight of bees, and just very nasty to those to trim them. The word from the US Poison Center: if you get the sap straight in the eye it is epic pain, and goes downhill from there, including blindness.<\/p>\n<p>So wear goggles and gloves, fellow gardeners, with this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;from trimming a plant. It seems everything about euphorbias (spurge) is poisonous. She had trimmed the euphorbia we brought in, and began having eye pain. A fast check of the internet turned up &#8220;sap in the eye: blindness,&#8221; seeds&#8211;death. Fumes off the living plant can be harmful to the eyes. Etc. We called OSG for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,50,28,34],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-cherryh","tag-gardening","tag-jane-fancher","tag-the-daily-grind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}