beware, fire makes things hot
so i just got back from a camping trip in northern wisconsin this weekend. a few friends from milwaukee were going and i found a cheap ticket to green bay so decided to join. a little note to remember for future outings, bonfires make things very very hot.
saturday morning we awoke to see the embers of the previous night were still slightly red, so i reached for some neighboring rocks to put on the dwindling pile in order to contain them but not put them completely out, to ease in the building of the upcoming evening's fire. to my surprise, one of the larger rocks was still quite hot to the touch and gave me a now nicely blistered burn on my left hand:
for the future, i recommend testing the temperature of items around the fire before you simply grab at them.
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Thats gross
well, its not as gross as it looks here - since it is lathered up with burn cream. i do think the gross level will increase dramatically once the blisters begin to pop tho... think i'll be buying a bandage wrap today to help keep subway 'gunk' out of it. now THAT'S gross. :)
You have some of the worst luck with fire. In case you have blocked this from your memory, I recall the hot candle wax to your face and then followed up by a lepracy-like condition to your face for about a week.
dude .. forget the burn (it's on your left hand anyway - essentially a useless appendage), i cannot get over the fact that your life line intersects with your fate line above the very minimally pronounced head line.
wow - you really ought to get this looked at, I'm no expert but if I'm reading your palm correctly you are in for an exciting year.
http://www.ofesite.com/spirit/palm/palm.htm
yea, i've always been told the lines on my hand were very odd - they all kinda interact with each other. i just filled out the reading form on that site, we'll see what they say.
(a few mins later...)
i don't see where it says much of anything specific - was that you taking your own initiative? the generals were right on tho.
Yow, this looks painful!
Brian's palm reading skills are impressive [where'd you pick that up?!]. All I know about palms is, "red streaks, potentially very bad immediate future".
Seriously, if you get red streaks spreading out from the original injury, or new limitations in mobility or sensation, don't blow it off - infections in hands can spread just under the skin along the fascial planes really easily.
e.g. for Greys Anatomy, fig 425, see:
http://www.bartleby.com/107/126.html
Or, perhaps (but ABC, so bad, right?):
http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/
And Charlie's mouth is off limits for a while. Right now you have the makings of a board question (Q: hand wound, potential cat lick, Pasturella fascial infection) for which the answer is (A: nasty badness).
thanks for the pointers, good to know. luckily charlie knows not to lick me anyways. :)