Ouch

[StSanta]

Bread in my tiny oven. It uses those red hot electrode like things commonly found in toasters. I put hand in and inadventently fall over something on the floor.

BSSZZZZZ

"This is not good" I think after I instinctively pulled my hand out.

Nope. My left hand now has two big linear burns, about half a centimeter across each and extending right across the upper side of my hand. The skin isn't red. Where there is an upper layer, it's brown or black. Am not feeling any pain at this point but quickly take a few pain killers, jump on my bike and go to the hospital.

On the way, the pain sets in. Man. Oh man. I'm dying. I want to cut off my hand and throw it away. The thing is a big tangle of upset nerves crying for attention. It feels not like a hand, but a big blob of tortured flesh.

Luckily the emergency staff is good. They give me some stuff to put on the wounds, which initially makes it even worse and a bunch of PK's, not sure what it was.

Day after, and it's throbbing, pulsating. The stuff they gave me keeps the pain away and it's merely uncomfortable. but I must say that I've broken bones, cracked heads, torn muscles but nothing of it comes close to the pain of these burns. They're highly localized but man, they hurt like hell yesterday.

Am I the only clumsy idiot that have tried this?

[Ripsnort]

Burns are the worst, and also the worst way to die.

In 1979, our "Crew" won the Safety crew of the quarter at Boeing in Plant 2.  So, customary Hot coffee and donuts (you *know* where this is going, don't you?)

I get a nice hot cup of steaming coffee in the little styrofoam cup, go back to my seat, sit down, cross my legs..oops, there goes the coffee, right down into my crotch, the whole cup.  No problem, except I have tight jeans on (popular in the 70's) and now I'm grabbing my crotch to attempt to keep the hot coffee-soaked jeans away from my genitals! I went to the nurses station, and they called an ambulance, I went to Harborview Emergency where a nice gal in a white smock and a clip board came into the room..she asks "So where did you get burned"...I dropped trow and she turned about 5 shades of red and said "I'll go get the doctor".  Great, I just exposed myself to a nurse..doctor comes in laughing, "I heard you've been exposing yourself to our staff!"  Real funny doc. plower.  2nd degree burns on my noodle and balls, burned for a week straight.  Painkillers were my best friend during that week. And even a slight erection was like getting kicked in the balls due to the blisters involved.

[Krusher]

Not to make light of your pain, but.......
As a kid I worked as a volunteer in the burn ward of a childrens hospital... It was the most gut wrenching thing I have ever done. Even with the drugs they were given, theses kids were in horrible pain.  

I hope it heals up quickly for you.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Krusher
Not to make light of your pain, but.......
As a kid I worked as a volunteer in the burn ward of a childrens hospital... It was the most gut wrenching thing I have ever done. Even with the drugs they were given, theses kids were in horrible pain.  

I hope it heals up quickly for you.

You and my wife could talk!  She worked(works, still does, occasionally, float pool)as an RN in  the Pediatric Burn Intensive Care Unit at Harborview(Level 1, only 5 like it in the world) for 13 years.  She'd come home almost in tears some days...because 25% of the victims in her ward were usually the victim of child abuse burns.

[Curval]

I HATE getting burned...nothing worse.

Santa, sounds like those were 3rd degree burns too...no wonder your post was entitled "ouch"!

I hope you are right handed?

[Krusher]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
You and my wife could talk!  She worked(works, still does, occasionally, float pool)as an RN in  the Pediatric Burn Intensive Care Unit at Harborview(Level 1, only 5 like it in the world) for 13 years.  She'd come home almost in tears some days...because 25% of the victims in her ward were usually the victim of child abuse burns.

I admire her greatly. I did it for 6 months or so and was wiped out emotionaly.

[capt. apathy]

been there, done that, go back and do it again most days.

be a welder for awhile.  after a bit of practice you can learn to take a burn like that and not flinch (it screws up the weld you know).  you just bite your tongue and finish the weld.  hopefully it happens twards the end of a pass so you can cool it off and put the fire out (that started on your shirt as the molten steel passed through it) before it gets out of hand.

sorry, I know it hurts like hell.  but you don't get much burn simpathy from welders.

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by capt. apathy
been there, done that, go back and do it again most days.

be a welder for awhile.  after a bit of practice you can learn to take a burn like that and not flinch (it screws up the weld you know).  you just bite your tongue and finish the weld.  hopefully it happens twards the end of a pass so you can cool it off and put the fire out (that started on your shirt as the molten steel passed through it) before it gets out of hand.

sorry, I know it hurts like hell.  but you don't get much burn simpathy from welders.

Nothing worse than getting a little ball of molten steel in your boot.... OMG that hurts.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Krusher
I admire her greatly. I did it for 6 months or so and was wiped out emotionaly.

Takes a special person to volunteer or do it for a living.  Naturally she's one of those special persons..she'd have to be to be married to me!

[Raubvogel]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Nothing worse than getting a little ball of molten steel in your boot.... OMG that hurts.

Except getting one down the back of your shirt on an overhead weld.  

[Gunthr]

Just imagine, StSanta, your mini-burn is just a small sample of what you will experience in HELL if you don't change your pagan ways... it's a sign from God....

REPENT!  

[LePaul]

Well I can tell you about burns.  

Ouch, Rip!


When I was 2 years old, I was playing near where Mom was ironing.  Either she asked me to unplug it, or I did it on my own...but either way, I pulled an iron onto myself and managed to block it with my left hand.  Quick visit to the ER and it was beyond them.

Make a really long story short, I have a skin graft from my thigh (scar tissue) for my entire left palm, and my middle finger.  Over the years I've had to have plastic surgery to stretch, adjust and accomdate the graft as I got older.  I can't stretch it as far as my right hand, so things like piano lessons were a bit odd since I couldn't quite hit the far away keys...but I adapted.  My last surgery was when I was 22 or so...they did some zig-zag kind of incisions to allow my thumb some extended freedom, etc.  

Luckily, it was never a hinderance for flying, or with the motorcycles...though I always had to adjust the hell out of the clutch cable to accommodate me.  

And I'm lucky, sure its ugly, but I have the function...and its in my palm, where its not blatantly visible.

[StSanta]

LOL Gunthr.

Actually God is an atheist loving God. So he'll send anyone who doesn't believe in him to heaven, and believers to hell.

Feel the heat yet?

Heh apathy, sounds like a squeak to me, being a welder. OTOH, is it very common to get 3rd degree burns that need medical attention?

I've had less burns before. They hurt. This was magnitudes worse though. Maybe I'm just a wimp.

[capt. apathy]

actually 3rd degree burns happen ever day or so.  most are less than 3/16 of an inch but usually equally deep.

 as far as requiring medical attention. you only need to watch a dr. charge a couple hundred bucks to clean out a wound, put some salve on it, and tell you to keep it clean and dry a few times before your opinion of what requires medical attention changes dramaticly.

basicly anything less than 2" ( 5 cm) dia. I take care of myself (unless it goes very deep or is too close to nerve bundles, ect that could be more serious damage).

and when I do have to goto a Dr I make sure the write a very large script for silvadene (sp?) cream (keeps out infection).  I can usually get a suply that will last for a year or so worth of burns.


the nastiest burn I've ever seen (saw it happen, never actually looked at his burn)was about 10 years ago.


me and another guy where welding stainless steel overhead. it sloped up at a 45 deg angle so it was a overhead/verticle weld.  we where in a reclined position and a big glob of stainless fell and burnt through the chest of the guys cover-alls, I was changing rods so I seen the whole thing happen.  stainless doesn't burn like regular steel (regular steel will burn when exposed to air and cover itself in a ash like slag that insulates it some so it gives off it's heat slower) so stainless is a much nastier burn.

so I see this drop fall to his chest.  he keeps welding while rocking around to try to keep it moving on his chest until it cools (so the burn doesn't go too deep).  since he is reclined at an angle it rolls farther down on his stomach every time it moves, but it's a big glob and doesn't cool off near fast enough.  all of a suden he throws down his stingerand jumps up to standing and clutches his belt buckle (aparently it had become stuck behind his belt and was burning deep)  HUGE MISTAKE.  his face goes completely white, he passes out, and hits the floor.  so when he got it out from behind his belt it fell lower and landed right on the end of his.....   ya, 3rd degree burn right there.  he was in agony for weeks.  couldn't even look at a reasonably atractive woman without it literaly bringing tears to his eyes.


btw to any other welders out there.  don't you hate that few moments when you smell cotton burning as you are welding,  and you always think to yourself "some poor SOB's on fire,  dumb bellybutton probably doesn't even know it"  then you find your leg starting to get real warm

[Ripsnort]

Good story Capt!  

Yeah, stainless doesn't  slag up due to less impurities in the steel that are intentionally "cooked" out during process apparently.

Ouch!  Bet that left a scar too.