Monday 6 August 2007

Bloody burnt

All day yesterday I had a slight pain on the palm of my right hand. When I look at it I saw a cut, not bleeding so thought that was it.

Then when I got home I realised, I'd actually burnt it and it was reaching quite a high level of pain. I woke up this morning and I have a round red patch about the size of a 2 pence coin. It is slap bang in the middle of my palm so whenever I move my hand it hurts - and it doesn't help that I'm right handed. Anyway enough of that sob story.

Onto another. Out of no where, I had blood pouring (well it looked a lot!) from the my right index finger. I put a plaster on it. But blue plasters are so unhelpful. They are actually designed to be crap:
  • They're blue, so if they get dropped in food you can spot them - but you just look like an idiot.
  • They come in sealed packets to keep them sanitary. The result is that you have mangle up about 3 before you get one that doesn't stick to itself.
  • They're not waterproof, because you are meant to change them every 20 minutes for hygiene. After going back to the first aid box 4 times in 30 minutes I grabbed a wad of them and put them in pocket because I had to change them so often.

There is one other sob story. This one a bit more personal...I sat on top of the oven (cleaning!) for about an hour on probably the hottest day this year. You can read more about what happens here. Sorry about that.

4 comments:

James (UK) said...

Honey mate... put some natural Honey on the burn. Lab tests have proven it heals quicker than any specialist burn cream does. And use some of those Silver based plasters too, if you can.

And for "chaffing", you can do no better than Sudocreme. I used to weigh 21 stone and speak from experience! ;-)

Pizza Hut Team Member said...

James, thanks for the advice on the burn and chaffing. I'm going shopping later. My list so far is: Big Brain Academy, silver plasters, honey, Sudocreme, passport photos and chocolate ice cream.

James (UK) said...

If I've caught you before you go... get some Carte D'Or's "La Vazza" coffee ice-cream. Gorgeous, if you like coffee... and Sainsbury's got a new flavour; "Tiramasu", which is also part of their "buy 2 for £3" tubs.

Al said...

I'm forever cutting myself on bits of disposable camera or when the screwdriver slips. All I wish for is our first aid box to have some normal size plasters rather than ones which are long enough to go round your finger at least twice.