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.
She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.
Willow ,'Help'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - Jul 24, 2011 3:52:52 pm PDT #26035 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Cass - Jul 24, 2011 4:35:04 pm PDT #26036 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
It might not hurt because you burned the nerves. Doesn't neccessarily mean it's not something a pro should check.
Burrell - Jul 24, 2011 4:35:06 pm PDT #26037 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I second the open wound dressing recommendation, it really speeds up the healing.
smonster - Jul 24, 2011 4:46:34 pm PDT #26038 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Also, Hil, here's what the Mayo Clinic has to say about burns - sounds like yours is a 2nd degree burn. [link]
Hil R. - Jul 24, 2011 4:49:36 pm PDT #26039 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
smonster - Jul 24, 2011 5:03:37 pm PDT #26040 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
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.
meara - Jul 24, 2011 5:53:41 pm PDT #26041 of 30000
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)
Zenkitty - Jul 24, 2011 6:24:54 pm PDT #26042 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
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.
meara - Jul 24, 2011 6:28:53 pm PDT #26043 of 30000
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)
Ginger - Jul 24, 2011 7:03:23 pm PDT #26044 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Flaming Batman head
That phrase has so many possibilities.
The Spenco burn pads are miraculous.