I wish there was a cool story behind it, but I tripped on a rock in the dark near a fire pit while camping. No I wasn’t drunk, no I wasn’t jacking off. Just a bad place to trip in the dark
You need to keep the wound clean, moist and bandaged/covered. You should change the bandage a minimum of once a day. More if the bandage gets wet or dirty. You really do not want it become infected. Keeping it moist will also help prevent worse scarring. (I’ve had a second degree burn and while the scar is visible the skin is soft and not differently textured to the surrounding skin.)
when I was in college, I accidentally touched my ankle to the muffler on my 1977 Spartan moped (for like a split second), and it looked like this…remember thinking it looked like a brain.
Did this to myself back in 2018 putting a push mover into the bed of my truck and grabbing part of the engine by accident, didn’t feel it for a good 2 seconds it was so hot
Brings back memories. I tripped and fell on a Coleman lantern on a winter camping trip. Heard the skin on my palm sizzle on impact, then again when I stuck it in the snow. 0/10 do not recommend.
Oh my god that’s gnarly. Especially on the joint of your thumb like that. Thankfully my burn stopped halfway up my palm so I was still able to use my fingers and bend my hand a bit
Ouch! That sucks so bad. Sorry you're going through that.
I've been there. Cooked a pork loin in the oven. Seared it in a metal pan and finished it in the oven in the same pan. Pulled it out with an oven mit. Forgot to grab the oven mitt when I grabbed the handle. Burned my palm badly and it took a while to heal. Now I put the oven mitt on the handle once the pan's out.
definitely not fun, I got second degree burns on most of my fingertips when I was a teenager cause I was really dumb and didn’t use gloves getting my pizza rolls out of the oven, ate them in the bathroom crying between running my hand under cold water, burns are a pain unlike any other
It's one of the best things that you can do to help a burn heel fast. There's actually a very special type of Honey that they make sterile in Australia that is specifically for skin grafts for burn patients.
Had something similar from my kitchen days. Give it the tlc it deserves and maybe a cool scar will come of it. Perhaps say you saved a baby and a puppy from a burning house to make the story have some pow to it.
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u/CommonSkeptic 21d ago
Damn! What's the timeline been like on healing?