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Drill Here, Drill Now |
Picked up some fireworks and lamb chops for NYE. Cooked for the GF and I, and then headed out to the cul-d-sac to hang with the neighbors and light off fireworks. I'm hanging out at the firepit chatting away, and about 10:45PM it feels like I've been punched on my side and it starts burning. A firework tipped over and started launching everywhere, and I took a direct hit. It actually traveled from behind, hit my rt torso, and burnt both my rt torso and rt forearm. Glad I was wearing a cotton shirt instead of a polyester one. Cleaned up the burns and bleeding wounds. Had a Dr look at it (friend of a neighbor). Applied neosporin on everything. It took one 4"x3" gauze pad to cover the burn and bleeding wounds on my forearm, and it took three 4"x3" gauze pads to cover the burn and bleeding wounds on my torso. I went to urgent care this morning and received a tetanus shot and a prescription burn cream. They want me to change bandages 2x per day, and follow-up midweek with my primary care physician. Ruined shirt, charred leather gun belt, two co-pays, prescription, at least $40+ in bandages for a week, didn't sleep well, and it hurts when I move. The most maddening thing is I don't even know the MF'er who lit it as they lacked the character to even come over and say sorry. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | ||
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Spread the Disease |
That sucks! I've been there; silver sulfadiazine cream was my friend for a while. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
Well that sucks _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Yeah that sucks. Hope you recover quickly. | |||
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Ouch, get well soon. Nearly swung by your place Saturday when I was out in the Midget. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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Firearms Enthusiast |
This! The stuff is amazing for burns. | |||
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Sounds like you had a blast of a party :P This is where my signature goes. | |||
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| Drill Here, Drill Now |
That's what they prescribed. 1st time using it, but heard good things from neighbors last night and urgent care this morning. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
I've had good success using lidocaine sunburn gel on non-sunburn burns. Numbs the pain enough to take the edge off and let you get some sleep. Just check with your doc that it plays nice with the Rx cream. | |||
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The silver cream is good stuff. While being less than careful using black powder to ignite an old tracer I once burned the snot out of the finger and around to the side of my thumb. The immediate care sent me to hand specialist. He looked at me as if to ask why are you here and sent me off with silver cream, to keep using the fingers, and advice to use sunscreen for a while after it healed up. It was the largest burn I had ever had but it healed just fine with his advice. “That’s what.” - She | |||
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tator...that stuff REALLY works!! I had 2nd degree burns on the soles of my feet from EXTREMELY...I mean, surface of the sun...hot sand in a volleyball pit one time. I have very tender feet to begin with. ER put that stuff on my feet and bandaged them. Had to change the dressing and apply more silva-zine every few days. In less than a month, I couldn't even tell I had been burned. Heal fast! Get well soon and Happy New Year! "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Damn dude. Well look at the bright side, at least you didn’t end up dead for 2024! I am not a fan of fireworks in civilian hands, I think they should be left up to professionals IMO. Here in Pennsylvania powerful fireworks are far too easy to get your hands on and these yahoos all around here are always shooting these damn things off. I swear this one asshole up the street from me loves to set these things off at like 1 AM randomly and it feels like an artillery barrage, I’ve called the cops on them several times. | |||
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Dang. Not good but, thankful it wasn’t worse. That silver stuff works very well. | |||
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| Drill Here, Drill Now |
The stepfather of the kid who lit the firework just rang my doorbell and apologized. He said the kid lit the fountain box, it started burning out the side, it flipped on its side, and started shooting everywhere. Apparently, everybody in their family ran inside and didn't realize anybody was injured. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Keeping the economy moving since 1964 |
Truly no fun at all! Be well. ----------------------- You can't fall off the floor. | |||
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| I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not |
that sucks...I felt bad that I stayed home and read a book...Kind of depressing but it beats burns from a firework.. get well soon!! | |||
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TT, glad you’re on the mend and it wasn’t worse! | |||
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Damn dude  At least they came over and checked on you later. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
That’s good… but he should have made the kid go with him to apologize directly. Glad you are OK. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Coin Sniper |
Sorry to hear it happened. If you'd rubbed some dirt it you'd be fine  Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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