Freakin' steam burns

:-(

I hope the deadly soup is at least tasty.

cheers andrew. the soup was dead tasty. and a tip for young players - mind the steam!

At one of the restaurants I worked in, a cook got steam burns in his lungs by leaning too far over the sink while decanting a pot in which he had been boiling tripe. Just imagine a lungful of scalding tripe steam. Oh, man.

crikey. how on earth do lung burns heal?

Slowly.

Ice water, ice water, ice water - keeps the burns from spreading and stops the internal cooking that occurs. Of course, this advice is only good for right after the burn occurs and at that point I am usually swearing and waving my hands in the air and not thinking logically. I need to get a sign for my kitchen that says, "Dummy, get with the ice water!" Though I'd probably get pissed at being called 'Dummy' and would refuse the suggestion out of spite.

Chris - I am sorry that you've burnt yourself - those steam burns are a real bitch. Maybe some ice would help? (See, I'm full of marvelous advice.)

offtopic but is Australia the only country that gives its "sporting" "stars" nicknames like "the big poo"?

in france they call soccer's Patrick Vieira "la grande saucisse". may or may not be due to communal showering.

thanks windows. i gave my fingers a good three soaking in iced water. very soothing.

the windows of my house are always open for the likes of you.

Ouch! I hope they get better soon.

*chuckling* Thank you ever so much, Chris - that's an incredibly sweet invitation, but, well, um, is your floor suited for tumbling down onto? I mean, if I come in through the window the chances are pretty darn good that I'll take a header and make a very dramatic but somewhat lacking in elegance entrance - and I want to make sure that the bruises aren't too horrid.

How are your fingers this evening/morning?

there would be no tumbling as i would take your hand and help you through.

the pain has been replaced by itching and throbbing today. thanks for asking. you are a treasure.

Awwww - that's so kind and thoughtful. Odd that you presume I have hands though - or that they'd be available - I think they'd likely be full of beer and chocolate and strawberries and other assorted goodies - that might present an interesting dilmena.

I am sorry about the itching and throbbing - are you still doing the ice water routine? (Hopefully not too near your keyboard, of course.) Have you tried any of the topical stuff to take down some of the swelling? Do you have any really cool blisters that will make for good scar-anecdotes later in life? (I think that suffering through pain is much more rewarding if you can get some good sympathy for it later.)

my sister, an emergency room nurse, took one look, said "running cold water" and turned her back to continue her interrupted conversation. it was like "chris you pansy ass, you think that's the worst burn i've seen". having soaked the fingers my grandfather, who was over for dinner, set about applying betadine and this gauze stuff for burns. this was overlayed with bandages. pa's amazing. at 85 he's still able to bandage a wound with the same tenderness and expertise he demonstrated through fifty years as a gp.

the burns themselves i found fascinating to look at. the steam appeared to have formed the blisters, whilst its force simulaneously burst them and pushed the skin closer to the fingernail. i'd make a lousy doctor. i'd be too busy examining the wound/burn making noises like "isn't this fascinating!" and "oh my god! pus!".

suffice to say i've been well looked after but i'm enjoying your curiousity. and would love to partake in whatever your hands may be holding.

how was the trip to the dentist windows?

My goodness, Chris - I am glad to hear that your grandfather took care of the matter for you - steam burns are so nasty and painful.

I'm like you - I find such wounds to be fascinating. Give me a living, breathing, injured person or animal and I'm fine. I know how to react and what to do and I don't blanch or anything. It's fascinating to see how we're all put together. I don't do well with corpses, though. In fact, I do horribly with them (which is why I never finished my training to become and Emergency Medical Technician).

The dentist was an adventure - I took a tranquilizer before hand, in hopes of stopping jaw spasms - so I pretty much floated along. I took in my Carmina Burana CD to listen to during the procedures - an odd choice in retrospect, but it still was okay. The lidocain is now wearing off - except that my nose on the right side is still numb, which feels quite odd. Glad to have it all behind me (but I like my dentist - he's excellent with the numbing procedures - never feel a thing) - but I do miss seeing his staff - all beautiful young women who are personable and intelligent and gentle and caring - definitely drooling time for me.

a trip to the dentist in orlando sounds like a real erotic adventure. self prescribing drugs beforehand is a capital idea! of course, i drool at the dentists, but this is the natural response to having one's mouth open for ten minutes! it's a tense experience. i'm always making a concerted effort to relax. i hope once the numbness subsides yer gums are not too sore!

burn update - progressing well, still bandaged but i am enjoying the challenge of bathing with a supermarket bag tied around my wrist!

thread, arise.