CAUTION:
I was at my daughters last Friday. I got up before everyone else (not surprisingly) and decided I would make a cup of coffee. She doesn't drink coffee so I bring a few of those teabag style coffee singles. Not good coffee but better than no coffee at all. I grabbed a cup out of her cupboard, filled it with water, and stuck it in the microwave for two minutes.
As I went to get it out the handle seemed to be a little bit warm but I thought if I grabbed it quickly I could get it out. BIG MISTAKE!!! That cup had been painted with some type of metallic paint. I don't know how many hundred degrees it was, but I couldn't turn loose of it fast enough to keep from searing my thumb and index finger. I had just picked up a piece of (virtually) red hot metal. To say it hurt like hell would be grossly understated.
The first thing I did was went to the sink and ran cold water on it for a few seconds. Then I opened the refrigerator freezer and luckily there was one of those blue ice packs laying right in front. I had second degree burns, verging on third. I took a bunch of ibuprofen -- exceeding the recommended dose to the point of prescription strength product. There were several of those ice packs so I ended up icing those burns for the next six hours. That must have been the right thing to do. I kept those burns from blistering.
Then I kept slathering the burns with petroleum jelly, hand lotion, or any similar product I could find to keep the seared skin from drying out and cracking. I ended up carrying a tube of lip balm in my pocket, and I would grease those burns every whipstitch. I've been wearing a cotton glove if I have to do any dirty work. I also coat the burns liberally with petroleum jelly before I go to bed, and wear a glove on that hand at night.
Today things are looking pretty good. There is no pain and the skin has pretty much laid back down. It will be a waiting game until the skin atrophies an falls away but I will keep in greased up until it does.
Watch out what you put in the microwave.
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