In case you're amused by the misfortune of others...

[firefighterjake]

Generally amused, yes...but pics help a lot!!

Anyway, get well soon - as others have said Vitamin E will help some. Also my mother swears by Silvadene burn cream:

http://www.healthsquare.com/newrx/sil1404.htm

I had an incident with a few sparklers accidentally going off in my hand: https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/4702/#50096, I used some of this burn cream and today no scars what so ever on my hand. (Well from that incident anyway)

(PS - you see how a pic helps tell the story!)

(PPS - Awww, dang it - I was hoping my 1000th post would be something insightful and historic - but here it is!)

Egads . . . that looks quite painful.

 

[woodconvert]

Beginning to wonder why I opened my big yapper... :blank:

Now it just looks like i fell asleep with my head on the corner of my desk.

Hey, like FFJ says above...get some cool shapes and set em' on your stove for the next time. An AC/DC emblem..oooh, Harley Davidson emblem...skull n' cross bones. Am I helping at all??

 

[firefighterjake]

. . .I think I need one of those full body suites the firefighters wear. :red:

. . .

Turnout gear . . . aka bunker gear.

"Full body suits" for some reasons makes me think of a bunch of burly guys wearing leotards.

 

[firefighterjake]

All these injuries reminded me of a forehead injury I ended up with a year or so ago.

Not a burn, but rather a moment where stupidity trumped commonsense.

My wife asked me to cut down a rather large pine branch near our house. Since it was just a bit higher than I could reach I grabbed my stepladder and a bow saw and began cutting it . . . unfortunately this was before I knew about making hinge cuts (partial cut on the bottom and then the cut on the top.)

As I was making some of the last cuts that little voice in the back of your head that you usually ignore began saying something to the effect of "You know that branch could swing down and hit you."

As usual I ignored the little voice, figuring that the branch would simply drop slowly to the ground.

The next thing I knew I was sliding down the ladder and blood was gushing out of my forehead as if someone had tapped a faucet into my forehead.

I'm not a big fan of doctors or hospitals . . . mainly since they are so fond of sticking sharp things into you (and I've spent most of my life trying to avoid being pierced by sharp objects) . . . that and they tend to like poking and prodding in places that in my mind should never be poked or prodded (i.e. cough please . . . does that hurt?) However, in this case I knew right away that a visit was mandatory.

To make a long story short we took the short trip in after getting the bleeding under control, I ended up with several stitches (which made me look like a real bad a$# for a few days -- I even concocted a story about getting in a bar fight which some folks at work believed for a while). The funniest thing however happened right after we left the hospital. My wife stopped at a local convenience store so we could get some drinks. The clerk was a kid, maybe 18, who was looking down and running the register. After scanning the drinks he happened to glance up, took one look at my gash on the forehead and for the rest of the transaction never looked eye to eye with me again.

Anyways, here's a day or two after pic.

 

[billb3]

Hope not too much fell out before that got stitched up.

 

[buzcranne]

No, that's not actually me in the picture.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

LOL @ unhingd

Maybe the stove is a superior being- branding its herd.

 

[buzcranne]

That's Rehingd.. REhingd.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

LOL- be happy with unhingd... you should see what I come up with for some other reg'lars here

heh heh

 

[buzcranne]

LOL- be happy with unhingd... you should see what I come up with for some other reg'lars here

heh heh

Ok. I'll take it.

 

[Scrounger]

I had an incident with a few sparklers accidentally going off in my hand: https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/4702/#50096,

Good Gravy Man!! That hand looks awful! Looks like you wrapped your hand around the sparklers to try and put them out.

 

[Corey]

Nah - me and the in-laws were setting around after dinner on the 4th of July - I had this idea I'd light up 6-7 sparklers for everyone to twirl around. So I grabbed a handful and stuck a lighter to the end. Well, one sparkler takes about 30 seconds to burn up. A handful of them takes about .003 seconds. Instantly I noticed I was holding a handful of burning metal and dropped it as quick as reflexes would allow - but the damage was done.

 

[kenny chaos]

I've seen a hand like that before. Let me think...oh yes. The man was playing with his balls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsYIu2ohVFY

 

[firefighterjake]

I've seen a hand like that before. Let me think...oh yes. The man was playing with his balls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsYIu2ohVFY

The things you can find on the internet.

The best comment I saw in the short time I was watching the video. ---

"i tried this but instead of lighter fluid i used rubbing alcholhol does it matter what flammable substance you use i burned the hell out of my hands even on the blue part i could barley touch it and i dropped it when i lit and caught my pants on fire"

 

[VTSR5]

I just burned my forehead on my stove. It's entirely possible I'll have a scar.

That is all. Nothing left to see here.

You are only expected to kneel and pray to the Englander 30. Self-mutilation is a token of respect normally reserved for the Pacific Energy product line, as I understand it. Then when you step up to a soapstone stove, you can just light yourself on fire to prove your love. :smirk:

 

[ROYJ24]

I knew this forum had members who are passionate about their
woodstoves :wow: , but I didn.t know how much? ;-P

 

[Elfin]

Ow... I'm thinking the forehead burn sounds not-so-bad now, after seeing the pics of other injuries!

Plus I got "punished" for my smart-ass comment earlier in this thread... burned my finger tonight (minor, but it got my attention!)

 

[Dix]

Doing The Dixie Eyed Hustle - 29 October 2008 09:27 PM

I’m not sure how else to put it so I’ll just say it. I was on my knees blowing at the stove.



Sorry, I was doing that tonight, too....

Hi. My name is Stove. Buy ya a drink?

No thanks, I had my own :red:

You guys are hilarious !! (yes, even you, Jags ;-P )

I hope the Cyclops effect doesn't last long Reh !!

Elfin, go get the gloves, and it's over

 

[the_dude]

Thanks. It's not a terrible burn but you know how burn marks tend to stick around a while.

Should be fun explaining this to every person I see for the next couple of weeks. (I'd put some kind of smiley here if I knew how).

Luckily I was able to laugh at myself.

Just tell everyone you burnt your forehead with your curling iron.

 

[the_dude]

Oh, wait, better yet. Tell everyone it is your costume for Halloween. You are 'Burnt Forehead Man.'

 

[RedRanger]

Please don`t do it again, cause next time, none of us are gonna ask for pic`s. Thought I could see the humour in this till I remembered, that since I got my new insert I have never once, reloaded without those gloves that almost go all the way to my elbows. And there is a reason for those gloves.

Next time--for goodness sake--use your head. Whoops, you already did that and it didn`t work :lol:

 

[BrowningBAR]

Well, look at it this way; you burnt your head ONCE and learned a lesson. I, on the other hand, have whacked my head on my barn beam mantle that is over the fireplace that the wood stove is in EVERY DAY for the past two weeks. Sometimes more than once in a day.

Someone should have really warned me that wood stoves cause brain damage.

I'm warm, but my head really hurts.

 

[egghead2004]

No headwounds for me, but my old stove had a metal flap that hung down about 6" when the door was opened. It could swing in or out when adding wood or cleaning. I used to prop it open by pulling it out and then I could stuff the stove for the night. Well, a couple of times I would bump the stick that propped the flap open and sizzle...right on my wrist.

So one time after this had happened I had a real distinct red line wound across my right wrist. I was at a chinese restaurant bar waiting for my wife and the bartender would not serve me. He thought I was suicidal...

 

[buzcranne]

... 4 frickin pages ...

:-S