OW OW OW I burnt the shit out of my hand
 

and it hurts like all fuck

I was soldering a copper pipe and put the torch down, it fell over and knocked the pipe into my hand. I can't even remember how that happened since the pipe was in a vise. I think I was taking the pipe out of the vise, the next thing I knew I had caught the hot end of the pipe between my thumb and pointer finger, the torch was on the floor of the shop melting a plastic bucket, setting the sawdust on fire and burning up a few paper towels.

an hour of cold compress hasn't made a difference. I think I'll walk to the drug store and see if they have that Spenco shit.

Ouch.

Not to mention the waxy, greasy, acid flux was heat sealed into my skin.

Owww. Cold compresses are good. Don't put greasy stuff all over it, just keep it clean and covered with a nonstick dressing. If it's really dirty with the waxy stuff you may need to get it debrided tomorrow. At least they can also give you some pain meds then.

Ow. Ow. Ow. Burns are one of the worst kinds of pain.

CALENDULA OINTMENT GODDAMNIT

honey> raw [Manuka is the best] takes the owie out and is antibacterial

I am sorry about your hand ... NYF

Thanks.
I went to the crappo Rite Aid and got some 2.5% lidocaine. It helps a lot.

I scrubbed the grease off right away, I figured it was the best time to do so, while the endorphins and adrenalin was at its peak.

The BURNJELPLUS is already making it feel better. I tried a loose non stick dressing but it chafes. So I'm just airing it out.

I've already had a few beers, so I'm not going to take any of my pain meds (oxy something or other) I want to wake up tomorrow.

Thanks for all y'all's concern.

Freaking Ow! Damnit don't touch that!

[meat]

You burned the shit right out of my hand
It must have been while you were fixing me...

[/loaf]

Apply cold glass, liberally.

Yikes Foot! That sounds like you should have it checked out by a doc.
Good thing that the torch didn't catch the entire place on fire! Hope the pain has begun to subside by now. (Pssst! I gpt a few aspirin if you want. ;) )

Feetz see if the Pharmacist can give you some silver cream , i don't remember the name but it has silver in it

The solder had silver in it, does that count?

Beers and lidocaine were the magic ticket. The skin is sort of the consistency of over cooked turkey skin.

I'm cringing just reading this thread. I'm sorry about your finger.


My dad burned the shit out of his hand years ago when he was deep frying some potatoes. The pot of oil caught on fire, and he panicked and threw the pot into the sink. The boiling oil sloshed out onto his hand as he moved quickly to the sink.

Anyway, he found after he got back from the ER, that the only way to ease the pain was to elevate his hand, but his arm was getting tired. So he strapped a broom to a backpack's external frame and hung a sling from the broom. Then he tied his wist to the sling and wore the contraption.

I'm not sure if making the contraption took his mind off the pain, or if the sling cut off the circulation to the burn, or if it was the elevation. Probably a combination of all three. But for that first evening, he felt a lot better walking around wearing the backpack contraption.

Silver Sulfadiazine. I got it when I had a similar burn when I tested giant RF filters (under applicable power...body-as-hot dog-cooking power in some cases) that I had to solder together (and that sometimes exploded. Fun job.)

Get Weld Soon, foot!

Ow.

I see the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as far as your handiness goes.

re: Infi, WSH^

[speaksfromexperience]Unless you have a hitherto unnoticed topical sensitivity to honey...[/speaksfromexperience] ;p


@ Foots: owwwww! Just, fucking owww. Hope it feels bettersoon m'dear. I am genuinely sorry about your finger.

Burnt, not burned?
If I was still teaching a phonics class I'd have to check whether the useage was correct.

But I'm not. I'm burnt.
Does anyone know of a vacancy for a TA?
Good refs from parents. Willing to relocate.

If I were teaching an English course I would say that, generally, Brits say burnt, and smelt, and whilst, and learnt, while Americans say burned, smelled, while, and learned. ;)

At least I thought so. I think foot has been influenced by all the British Telly he's been watching.

I burned the lasagne - the lasagna was burnt. I think. Though spoken usage is slightly different to written in many areas.


[eta] just googled and apparently in British English they are used more or less interchangeably :P Which actually fits..when I think about it.

Yeah, you're right about burned/burnt. I might say I burned my hand but the toast at breakfast was burnt.

But you don't hear smelt or whilst or learnt around here, much.

They don't teach grammar to kids around here any more. My eldest is taking Spanish, and the Spanish teacher is teaching them English grammar first so she can explain the Spanish grammar. But she's forbidden to teach English grammar, so she does it on the sly.

Now, you see, my phonics class consists of a set number of children.
So I believe was is correct.

Can't speak about the rest of it though.
They assigned me to Grade 6.
I can easily understand the spelling, but not necessarily the rule which makes it corect

I think Infi was pointing out 'were' used as a subjunctive. If I were to teach this blah blah, rather than If I was to teach this.

Except that I don't think the use of 'was' in that way is considered incorrect these days. Very much a dialect thing. Personally I skip about with it. Use both forms.

Sometimes it sounds so awkward to use 'were' I go ahead and use 'was.' Usually though I use 'were' if for no other reason is it makes me feel smart inside and people think I'm stupid for using 'were' which you only use with, like, 'we.'

It's like when someone asks how you are. I say 'I'm good, thanks, and you?' Whereas I know a lot of my educated cow orkers would say 'I'm doing well, thank you...' which I think just sounds pretentious.

However, my sources show either is OK.

It may be from my mom that I say burnt. I've said it as long as I can remember. As in, burnt to a crisp.

I don't do the others, whilst, amidst, that often.

http://grammarist.com/usage/burned-burnt/

I remember my ex bf the Swede from Minnie Soda saying 'smelt' and it drove me bonkers! What are you, fusing ores?

And he and his friend thought it was heeelarious that I would say "I have to stop by the grocery."

The grocery what? all snide and Yon Yonson sounding.

The grocery store...the fucking grocery STORE, OK?

:lol:

My Mum would sat "Burnt to buggery."
But in her (slight) London/ Essex accent it could have been "burned".

English language - written - is a minefield.
Spoken only slightly less so; there's no record for other people to check.

The children I used to teach would say things in phonics that they had already grown out of IRL. When learning -ed as a suffix for example, "I hurted my knee."

I dont care how you spell it. I'm not sorry about ur finger.

What, the one sticking up? :p:

Up what?

Your cooze.
(laughs manically and runs away)

Hehehehe.

Also: psycho pirate. Excellent.

Gotta love Wilson Wilson; so good they named him twice.

If, for some reason, you are suddenly flung against barbwire, and are lacerated, press the edges of the wound together, coat liberally with KrazyGlue, GorillaGlue, or some such item, and seal it with duct tape. 100MPH tape works great in this instance. Aftercare with the medics is usually recommended.

Has nothing to do with your finger...
/The more you know...

Next time, foot, forget the cold compresses. Fill a bowl with ice. Add water to fill in between the ice. Plunge your hand in the bowl. Take three ibuprofen.

It's gotten me through a couple of nasty burns.

Ok Brits. You call a flashlight a torch. So what do you call a torch - like what foot used to BBQ his fingers?

A poppertop.

A torch of course!
We bin around longer than you New-Worlders.
We use OLD words.

Actually Americans often use older words. Fall (as in the season), and garbage come to mind. Not used here now.

So you tell the difference through context?

I didn't know that about fall and garbage.

I have read that the speech of Appalachians is quite close to Elizabethan England.

Oh, piddly-poo and nonsense, y'all!

I used one of those frozen gel packs until it melted, then I put the burn gel lidocaine stuff on it. The next moring all the pain was gone. The first major blister broke last night after washing up after a marathon brewing session. There are a couple of other blisters beginning to form.

I'm surprised it wasn't painful after the first day.

No, no, no:

From Ham on Rye, Hold the Mayo

Yeah, I read that about an hour after I had iced it. I did put a cloth napkin between the ice and the burn. I'm still alive.

My thumb fell off, but I'm still alive.

Well, it's better than butter.

Betty Botter bought some butter to better her burn.
But she said, sounding bitter, this butter better not burn my burn even better.
Betty Botter borrowed the batter from Baltimore and her burn felt better because of the batter who battered better.

First Law of Laboratory Work:

Hot glass looks the same as cold glass.

All of these in my high school chemistry class were melted.

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Snickers. I still remember we were filming our science projects in HS and Beth, the valedictorian no less, got caught putting a glass tube in her mouth (to 'blow' something apparently, I don't remember the experiment) that had just come out of the bunsen flame.

It was no sound film: she brings the glass tube to her lips, and gets a horrified look and her face and briskly removes it.

Later she said 'it just doesn't take me long to suck on a glass tube.'

(I made that last part up for the sake of the story.)

poor, stupid Beth.
:headshake

We called her Hotlips from then on.

(I made that up too.)

If it's hot, the beer will be boiling. ;)