OW OW OW I burnt the shit out of my hand

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I'm cringing just reading this thread. I'm sorry about your finger.


My dad burned the shit out of his hand years ago when he was deep frying some potatoes. The pot of oil caught on fire, and he panicked and threw the pot into the sink. The boiling oil sloshed out onto his hand as he moved quickly to the sink.

Anyway, he found after he got back from the ER, that the only way to ease the pain was to elevate his hand, but his arm was getting tired. So he strapped a broom to a backpack's external frame and hung a sling from the broom. Then he tied his wist to the sling and wore the contraption.

I'm not sure if making the contraption took his mind off the pain, or if the sling cut off the circulation to the burn, or if it was the elevation. Probably a combination of all three. But for that first evening, he felt a lot better walking around wearing the backpack contraption.