That's when the dish flipped over onto my hand and arm.
Apparently I screamed because several people came running. I must have been in shock because I thought they just happened to walk by (also, I'm not normally a screamer). I was standing over the trash can and I immediately dropped the whole thing into it. I could feel my hand burning so I ripped off my brace and (slowly) reached over and grabbed my full water bottle, complete with ice, and dumped about half of the water onto my hand which washed off a lot of but not all of the scalding sauce. Then I calmly walked to the break room where I poured some more of my bottle on my hand while I waited for a coworker to finish washing his dishes.
By the time I thoroughly washed my hand it had already started to blister. Laura helped me clean up and then washed my sweater and brace while Greg found an ice pack and some burn ointment.
Then, since I'd dumped my lunch in the garbage, I walked to McDonald's and bought myself some chicken nuggets. On the way back to work I finally started to feel my hand again. The ice started to feel cold -- hooray! I knew I'd be feeling pain soon -- not hooray! But at least I wasn't so badly burned I completely fried my nerves!
I stayed at work for awhile but didn't accomplish much. When I finally decided to go home I asked Laura to tape the ice pack to my hand so I could drive home! This is what she came up with (and it worked great):
I've been soaking the hand in cold water and it has helped keep the pain at bay... with additional help from Tylenol and aspirin. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep tonight!
However, I am counting my blessings. My old sprain has been healing nicely and I considered leaving the brace home today. I also almost wore a short-sleeved cardigan. The brace and long-sleeved sweater both protected my arm and kept me from getting a much worse injury! This 2x3 burn is bad enough without it running halfway down my arm! I feel lucky.
(Note: These are the first photos I've taken since early September. *Sigh*)
4 comments:
Sorry about your hand that doesn't look pleasant at all. I think I would have screamed too if I was eating a Lean Cuisine for lunch.
Glad to see you are back at work today though.
Megan, my mom and I work for a physical therapy supply company and we have a light therapy unit that really helps burns and other things like that heal faster. If you want to try it, it does take a few times of doing it before you see the real results but it really does help. Let me know if you want to try it, just call or text me.
Lizzy
If the burn still hurts, try putting honey on it, and wrapping it in bandages or something. The honey really pulls the heat out (Dave taught me this one time when I burned my hand).
Holy crap! That was my response when I saw the first pic of your hand... but spoken more slowly and dramatic.... I'm sooooo sooo sorry!!! OUCH!!!! Your poor hand/wrist/arm!!! :(
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