Ouch

No, really, that hurt. So this was supposed to be my first blog entry and Bob stole it while I was passed out on drugs. That's no nice, as my grandma would say.

As Bob said, I grabbed the pan handle and I grabbed it hard. I burned myself from the heel of my hand all the way up to each one of my fingertips. I really thought that I could treat it myself. You see, I got second and third degree burns on my hand and leg about eight years ago, so I know the drill. That's what happens when you spill boiling water on yourself. Anyway, I still had some of the burn cream from that time.

What changed my mind was that the cream was 8 years old and so is my last tetnus shot. Bad burns are prone to get infections and infections are bad when you don't have any skin. So we went to the ER with my hand in a pot of water.

I was really glad when they said they were going to give me an injection for the pain because it was still really painful almost three hours later. I don't know what the drug was called, but it made me loopy before it stopped the pain. She also gave me a tetnus shot and a bunch of rebandaging materials and I'm supposed to have it looked at in two days.

Home to sleep with instructions to take an ibuprofen now and a percocet around 3 am and then alternate the two drugs every 3 hours. Sounds like I'll be looped for awile. G'night.