There are some pictures at the end of this. some of them are ugly. you may not want to look. O.K. So i dont know how many of you know this, but I just may be the luckiest man alive. there are numerous reasons I could give for this, like, I have a beautiful wife that I dont deserve. my dad is one of the coolest guys i know. i have the gospel in my life. i have 5 healthy, rockin cool kids. but none of those is the reason for this post. some of you may not know the story so i will tell it. last year i took a week off work to spend a weekend with renae for our anniversary and to do some work around the house. one of those jobs was to burn the burning pile. i started to fire with gasoline. i have done this many times. after starting the fire i went off to do some other things. i came back a goodly am out of time later to find out my fire had gone out. i checked it over carefully to make sure. it was out. no flame. no embers. no smoke. so i got the gas can and went to restart the fire. as i was liberally splashing gas onto the pile i found out my fire was not quite out. the fire ignited with enough force to bring the guy from across the street out of his house(i was in my fairly large back yard) to find out what had just shook his house. when it went up. i saw the fire ball go around and past me. i quickly did the STOP/DROP/and ROLL. i thought i was on fire. my friend that was with me told me "your OK, your OK!" i got up and looked at my left elbow. reached over and pulled a large hunk of skin off. to which he said "oh, your not OK." i found out that if you are a burn patient you go to the front of the line at the ER. i was in, checked, treated, and out in less than an hour. the hair on my head was singed. eyebrows shorter(i had glasses on). eye lashes curled. but my arm took the brunt of the blast. i was burned bad, and it hurt. the swelling hurt more than the burn though. the pressure made it throb when i stood up. but what hurt the worst was the wound care center. it takes a special person to work at the wound care center(evil). they started off with a pair of tweezers and a small set of scissors and then went to a scalpel. they did not cut with the scalpel, they used it as a scraping tool. i just knew i was scarred for life. well here are the pictures. turn your head if you have a weak stomach. i mean it. Im not joking.
i did most of the scraping my self. did not like the wound care center.
the people were great it just hurt. a lot!
reverse view
i did the scraping in the shower. there was often enough blood
that the entire floor of the shower was red even with the water running.
this is what the bandages looked like after my work day.
i did not use the arm during the day. the fluid in just natural oozing
of the wound and bleeding.
it took about 10-15 min to get the bandages off.
they were stuck. had to be ripped off.
Day 15
I figured this is the scar i would have for the rest of my life
1 YEAR
This is what my arm looks like now. you have to look to see a scar.
i think in a couple more years it will have faded completely.
Like i said lucky. Blessed. Watched over. all these are true.
3 comments:
Wow, I forgot how bad you were burned because I never see the scar! I remember Renae saying how tough you were for scraping the burn off yourself in the shower. I agreed.
wow, that really is impressive healing! i bet you're right, it'll be totally gone in a couple of years. do you have any loss of feeling or anything there?
every once in a while i think i may have some extra sensation to heat. just a tingling sensation when near a heat source or on a hot day in direct sun. but only on occasion. all or at least most of the hair has grown back too.
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