The burn on my leg is starting to blister, and I can't stop poking at it. I need one of those dog cones or something to put over my leg.

Hil, if you don't go to the doctor, I recommend Spenco Second Skin fastened with waterproof tape. It's an occlusive dressing and will keep the skin clean and moist while it heals.

Flaming Batman head

"I'm melllltinngg!!!

It really doesn't hurt much at all anymore, so going to a doctor seems weird. "Yeah, hi, this hurt for a little while, and now it doesn't hurt but people keep wincing when they look at it." I'll take a look at that Second Skin stuff.

It might not hurt because you burned the nerves. Doesn't neccessarily mean it's not something a pro should check.

I second the open wound dressing recommendation, it really speeds up the healing.

Also, Hil, here's what the Mayo Clinic has to say about burns - sounds like yours is a 2nd degree burn. [link]

Yeah, it's definitely second degree. I've had these before. I'll follow what it says there and go to the doctor if it looks like it's getting infected. Right now, it mostly just looks like a really weird cattle brand.

Nora, I made the roasted okra recipe. I overcooked them a bit, but pretty good! Still a wee touch of slime. I think I may use the rest to make an okra quesadilla tomorrow. I'm definitely going to have to freeze some of my produce, or it will go bad.

Yeah, I think in the case of burns, "not hurting" is actually not a good thing if it looks bad...

I seem to have done something weird to my arm. I scraped my fingers trying to get teh top off a bottle of ginger beer at the farmers market, and then bought bandaids for my fingers. So when I got home and my hand felt tingly, I thought "hmm, did I put the bandaids on too tight??" but no, it's now my whole arm feeling weird and unpleasant and tingly, and I don't know what i did to it or how to make it stop. Do not want. Have been holding arm in all sorts of contortionist positions to try to make it stop (doesn't really help, but if the muscles are going 'HEY! HEY! WHAT?" it takes precedence in my brain)

Flaming Batman head:

Ahaha! He looks FURIOUS! With his little clenched fists and flame bursting from his little head!

Hil, you are disturbingly badass regarding the 2nd degree burn. "Yeah, I may have toasted some nerves, there. It's just a flesh wound. Just gimme an aspirin, there's vegetables to be cooked!"

meara, that's weird. Please go to the doctor if it gets weirder or doesn't go away.

Yes, well, it did incur the slight fear of "Oh crap, if this is like, a heart attack or something, and I die, no one will find me for DAYS and I will be gross and smelly and my house is a MESS"

But I think it's more likely an issue of ...not carpal tunnel, but the other one. Anyway, I think it's my arm being weird about the nerves in it--it feels kinda like I hit my funnybone hard (except no pain in the funnybone, and I didn't)