The Long Road

09/04/2003 Archived Entry: "those poor "chopstick fingers""

So I poured boiling water right out of a kettle and onto my hand yesterday. It hurt. A lot. As I was seething in pain, an interesting list of remedies was rattled off to me: warm water, cold water, ice, aloe, toothpaste and…soya sauce! I dunno, I’ll try anything, but being obsessively compulsed to constantly have clean hands makes the idea of rubbing soya sauce into them very unappealing.

After looking up some First Aid on the Internet (aaah, the Internet). I ended up dropping my hand in a sink full of cold water for an hour or so. It was very soothing except when I took my hand out and it would eventually dry and sting horribly again.

Anyways, my hand seems ok now; no blisters – which I think are superbly gross. This whole experience has taught me one thing, that I need to know some First-Aid or at least some really basic First-Aid so that the next time my manual dexterity fails me I won’t be going around to several people asking for advice before doing something about the unbearable pain.

Replies: 9 comments

when i was pretty young, i fell backwards into a fire pit. this was the early morning, so there weren't any flames. just coals. but god damnit, coals are FRICKING HOT! i think it happened around when i was twelve. but boy, i got blisters from that. i was taken, wailing all the while, to a sink in some outhouse, and we ran the cold water tap for about five minutes on my hand. it helped but it i was still in a lot of pain.

Posted by shawnathan @ 09/04/2003 03:30 PM EST

great...a blister is now formed on my middle finger...

Posted by Rayne @ 09/04/2003 11:14 PM EST

You might want to think of amputation Thai. The Chicks will really dig it.

Posted by Doug @ 09/05/2003 10:28 AM EST

Amputation? No. Those Chicks are too weird anyways. But maybe I can pop it...should I?

Posted by Rayne @ 09/05/2003 01:25 PM EST

Is this the first time you've badly burned yourself? Lucky!

Posted by Romer @ 09/05/2003 02:28 PM EST

Don't pop it! Pain and infection. Yucky.
I was burned badly once. We were having ckicken kiev for dinner one night and as I cut mine open it exploded and spewed boiling butter on the back on my hand. It spread all over my hand and then down in between my fingers. I had blisters for about a week. *shudders* Not fun at all.

Posted by Andrea @ 09/05/2003 04:18 PM EST

I accidentaly popped it...it was not a pretty sight. at all. Seems to have healed alright though so no infections!

I'm pretty sure this is the first major burn i've had.

Posted by Rayne @ 09/11/2003 11:09 PM EST

It's always good to have some first-aid person -like sarah - next to you during one of those painul moments.

[it's incredible how much you can hurt yourself in such a limited amount of time.]

Posted by Étienne @ 09/12/2003 07:45 PM EST

yeah, too bad Sarah wasn't around. she would have been quite helpful.

Posted by Rayne @ 09/13/2003 03:59 PM EST