Burns suck :(
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Yeah, I know it's not massively serious. But ouch
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Furious ****?
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Put your wang under the grill and you'll soon forget about the burn on your hand.
Since this is GD, I shall uphold the traditions:
1) Cover it with mustard and post it through your letterbox. Guaranteed cure!
2) It's a queen wasp nesting in your hand. I know because my dad kills them for a living.
But being serious for a second:
As for the odds on a big blister, I won't take that bet. I think it's pretty much certain.
1) Cover it with mustard and post it through your letterbox. Guaranteed cure!
2) It's a queen wasp nesting in your hand. I know because my dad kills them for a living.
But being serious for a second:
As for the odds on a big blister, I won't take that bet. I think it's pretty much certain.
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The only more disproportionate (damage to pain ration) injury than burns that I’ve experienced is dental pain.
Remember I broke my shoulder a year or so ago rescuing children from a burning orphanage?
I was rescuing those same kids from their burning orphanage again when a two bar electric fire slipped and fell on my hand.
(yes, cooker, I was taking out a roasting tray and caught my hand on the shelf above)
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Burns are horrible. I had radiation burns over 70% of my body. At least that's what I tell people, they make their own assumptions about me being some sort of Chernobyl era mutant. 
The reality is I used to have to stand in a vertical coffin with UV lamps in it for UVB treatment three times a week, and once had a really nasty reaction to it and came up in blisters - some in places I didn't even know I had places. Top of my arm and shoulder looked like the ******* Toxic Avenger.
The reality is I used to have to stand in a vertical coffin with UV lamps in it for UVB treatment three times a week, and once had a really nasty reaction to it and came up in blisters - some in places I didn't even know I had places. Top of my arm and shoulder looked like the ******* Toxic Avenger.
Those pesky kids!
A couple of months ago I decided to heat up a tin of cream of chicken soup, I picked the pan up to pour it out and the handle decided to fall off. I was wandering around in my underpants at the time, so I managed to splatter half of the boiling pan over my bare stomach, the stuff glued to me like napalm and I spent the next couple of minutes shouting loudly and doing my best to scrape it off. It blistered up and wept for a couple of weeks afterwards, I went through a tub of Sudocrem over the course of a month before it really started healing up. There's evident scarring even now and I suspect it'll be permanent, honestly if not for the current situation with Covid I'd have gone to the hospital.
Hurt like hell initially but funnily enough there wasn't any pain after I cleaned up, just discomfort and a lot of itching once it began healing.
Hurt like hell initially but funnily enough there wasn't any pain after I cleaned up, just discomfort and a lot of itching once it began healing.
The best thing for burns is water. Tons and tons of water. Like an hour at least, it won't cure the damage done but it'll make it a hell of a lot less painful the next day.
I know this from when I burnt myself multiple times as a welder. If you think an oven is hot, try picking up a piece of metal you've literally just welded. Steel melts at 1000deg C.
I have no fingerprints on certain fingers and some scars that have given me more than their share of "ahhhhh let me take care of it for you" from the ladies which often ended in some romantic shenanigans. Milk it Feek. Get your mileage out of it
I know this from when I burnt myself multiple times as a welder. If you think an oven is hot, try picking up a piece of metal you've literally just welded. Steel melts at 1000deg C.
I have no fingerprints on certain fingers and some scars that have given me more than their share of "ahhhhh let me take care of it for you" from the ladies which often ended in some romantic shenanigans. Milk it Feek. Get your mileage out of it
Some years ago, I read an autobiography of an naturalist. It was a long time ago, but if I recall correctly the author was Gerald Durrell and the book was called "My Family and Other Animals". Anyway...he has a substantial scar on his torso. He sometimes tells people it was a close call with a lion (or another imposing predator, depending on where the story he was telling was set). Then he tells them the truth - it was actually caused by a baby mongoose he was hand rearing. But a close call with a lion is a much more impressive story
EDIT: I fel compelled to check my memory, since it must have been ~40 years ago. It was spot on! Strange how some odd trivial things stick in a person's memory. It was an enjoyable book, but that's all it was. It's not like it contained the secret of eternal youth or magic spells or whatever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Durrell
Hmm, not quite. It must have been in one of his other books because that one was about his late childhood and early adolesence.
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I once had acid reflux caused by the drugs i was on for wisdom teeth removal.
Agonising stomach pains that caused me to clench my jaw so hard i ruptured the wound in my mouth. That was a fun couple of days...
But i disagree, from my childhood, the one thing i fear having again is an ear infection, that really hurt, but i was a young child.
As for the OP, that'll be a right tempting blister, sterilised needle within the week i bet.
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Kidney stone.
