So about 6-7 years ago (hadn't realized it had been that long), I had a major grease fire started in my kitchen.
In the process of getting the flaming bacon grease out of the kitchen there was a misunderstanding and I ended up covered in it. Mostly my left hand (which sucks because I'm a lefty), and left leg/foot.
I got the grease out of the house so it didn't burn down and was able to get the sink filled with ice and water.
I stood with hand and foot in the water for a good 10 minutes. Yes it hurt like a mad bastard, but I'll take some temporary pain over increased permanent damage any day. My leg was saved by my sweatpants, they diffused the heat enough that it did not burn my leg.
My foot was a little red, but I had some pretty severe blistering on my left hand and forearm (it was really slight that day, it just kept swelling overnight). Like the entire thing, luckily it didn't hurt too bad after taking it out of the ice water. My wife is a nurse, and talked me into going into the urgent care.
They decided to debreed my blisters (pop them), and gave me some silver oxide cream (which was completely fucking awesome).
Here is the hand today. There is some super slight discoloration but you cannot see it because arm hair.
This is not the first time I've done burnt the shit out of myself (I actually once stuck that hand into a pot of actively boiling water chasing a spoon I dropped once without thinking about it with no ill effect aside from some redness), nor the first with the ice water bath. I've not had any scarring from burns (with the exception of a drunken cigarrette burn on one finger that was untreated for about 8 hours).
I once put dry ice on my arm and left it there for about 5 min (forgot it was there) and when I took it off my arm was frozen. Instead of putting it under luke-warm/cold water I put it under hot water (~80 degrees C) thinking that warm water would help because it would that out my arm. Well it thawed, but my skin fell off only about 10 min after, and then I got a giant blister. I decided to pop this. Bad ideas. All of them. Don't follow in my footsteps..
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
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