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[zanzjan]

The Elder Child is a freakin' slob. By which I mean she is absolutely incapable of cleaning up after herself. If she pours a drink, she always ends up slopping some on the counter and just leaving the spill there. She'll eat a yogurt and I'll find the foil lid upside down on my sofa and the yogurt cup on the rug. She just can't seem to wrap her head around picking up after herself, which is especially bad now that I've got two crawlers in the house who like to put things in their mouth. (And no, she really doesn't seem to get the concept "choking hazard" either.)

Anyhow, I was making dinner and decided to put the kettle on for tea when I noticed a fine brown haze of chocolate milk powder all across my stove, and without thinking just went to brush it off with my hand. Forgot I'd just boiled water for corn. Very lovely burn across the palm of my hand, swelling and discoloration and it might be blistering. Also, hurts like an SOB. Already decimated the ends of the aloe plant. Typing is hard. Going to go sulk in front of the TV for the night.

Comments

[llcoolvad.livejournal.com]

Ow! I am doubly sad. 1: you hurt yourself, and 2: you didn't call me to tell me all about it. I miss our trauma calls!

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

I have no witty today. )-:

[mac-stone.livejournal.com]

Ouch!
:( A bowl of ice water, perhaps? You'll want to keep soaking it long past when it seems like you should be able to stop. I tend to burn myself regularly (some kind of weird karmic thing?) and speak from experience.

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kept it under the faucet for a good long while, then chopped some leaves off my aloe plant, and it's down to a dull ouch now. The discoloration worries me, because I haven't seen that before, but I figure if it isn't blistering it'll be all better soon enough.

It's been a while since I've burned myself, but I used to do it quite regularly. Probably helps that I'm no longer doing metal sculpture (-: In general puncture wounds appear to be my karmic injury of choice.

[miwseshat.livejournal.com]

OUCH!! ** hugs ** ice, ice, ice - cold compress, actually. and if anything is more than blistered, get thee to the doctor for some sulfa cream to kill the secondary infection which somehow manages to show up no matter what you do. sigh

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I'm sorry the Elder Child is Andy :(

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

and I'm sorry Andy is a 12-yo Aspie girl (-:

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

You and me both. He was a little embarrassing at Watchmen last night. *sigh*

I hope your hand feels better soon.

[varianor.livejournal.com]

Ouch, ouch, good wishes for fast healing.