At about 1pm I dropped a hot kettle and the scalding water did some damage to my left hand.
6 hours later
The following morning
Four days later
three weeks later
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May 16, 2011 at 10:46 pm |
Looks bloody awful, Norm! You have my sympathies. I usually burn mine on the oven.
May 16, 2011 at 11:20 pm |
The bowl of ice I put the hand in for a few hours killed the pain completely. I let it dry but worried about it scarring if it was bumped etc so I lathered it with Vaseline. You see how the blisters puffed up. A stocking bandage on each of the worst burnt fingers kept the blisters safe from bursting.
I was making a coffee after my poppy nap and bumped the kettle on the microwave it was sat on. My reaction was to try and stop the kettle from falling so the left hand came up automatically and got the hot water fullbore. The front of my trackies took a hit too but they ended up on the floor quicker than if a fine young lady had appeared
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Hand under the cold tap until I could think straight. I was preparing to go pick up the Mrs from work but thought I wouldn’t be able to get there and back because of the pain so called my middle daughter and asked her to do the run. Called the Mrs then and explained the situation.
Found a bowl big enough to lay my hand in and took all the trays of ice out of the freezer and broke them in to it. Sat at the computer with the hand in the bowl and played PC Golf and Solitaire until the Mrs came home. No sympathy but she did relocate the kettle from the top of the microwave
) I still managed to feed the zoo that evening too.
My theory is that the immune system causes the blistering. The blistering is the bodies cooling system but the skin has to be moist to fill out the bubble therefore the reason for the Vaseline. Remember there was no pain at all after I had iced the hand for so long even though touch, feel and temperature returned to normal.
In fact, apart from having to find solutions for the situation I was in, it was no big deal
)