I smell like chicken when I'm cooked and Sandblasted Beads!

Silvadene is a miracle. I got a huge and horrible burn on my leg during my freshman year of college and that stuff had just come out on the market. It was a blessing!

Oouch!!! (mommy type healing kisses) I cant wait to see what your sandblasting is like! As to not knowing how to ask as much as they are worth.. just DO it. You never know.. someone might just pay what they are worth, especially if they are scrumtious and unique... (thats just a thought, I dont know about selling stuff.. but.. could it hurt?) Diana

No fingerprint. And a huge divot where the flesh used to be. My medicine of choice has been puppy spit.

Ouch, Tink!!!! Sorry about your burn (I missed the original post). Hope it heals really fast so you can get back at the torch soon (gotta make more beads to sandblast, right?!!). Can't wait to see your new stuff!

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Take heart, Tink! I stuck my pinkie finger right into the flame a few years ago. Same chicken smell, so deep there was no pain for 3 days. I used Silvadene too, kept it dry as often as possible, and it healed beautifully. Even got my fingerprints back after a few months. In the meantime, if you can, pad the burn with gauze and cotton balls and it won't be so heat sensitive when you torch.

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ouch - poor Tink! Been there done that... did you get some Silvadene from a doctor?

I've done myself a few times - most without incident - but -

- I had one like that ..(hit my arm with fully hot rod of boro... yeah - like

1400 degrees!) and thought all was well - and it went bad on me on the third day. WAtch it carefully.....

I think sandblasted beads can be very interesting - and of course you know about Mickelson and how he uses it in his work - really amazing stuff.... sigh....

Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

The hand is healing remarkably well. To the point that I may be able to torch tomorrow. Yay!

And yes... I figure if I'm gonna play with Robert Mickelsen, I'd best hone some of my skills in preparation. And that includes learning to play with boro. I have some clear Kimax, but my color selection sux. Can't even get excited about trying it until I have some cool colors to play with. But boro is SOOOOO confusing. What you see AIN'T what you get. And I don't even know what brand is the most colorful. I like colorful :-)

I took some pics of my blasted beads tonight. They're not bad for a first attempt.

Tink, Here's a trick on burning yourself. It might not work on a severe burn but it really works on most. When you burn yourself from sticking your finger in the torch, picking up a hot rod or a big glass jump, hold the burn next to the flame as close as you can without hurting and doing further damage for 3 minutes. Your burn will not get worse on the contrary it will not blister and it will not hurt, it goes away. Steve has been doing this for 5+ years and it works. It will not work on those burns where you cook your thumb by leaving it in a hot torch to long but on those ones that blister normally.

Susan W

That's wild! I wonder why it works.... Louis?

Thank you, Deirdre... And Prairieson makes sure I take good care of myself.

Oh, Tink, OUCH! You poor thing! (((((hugs))))) Glad you found the sandblasting fun though.

I'm still giggling about smelling like chicken. I'm sorry about the pain (really!), but I'm always burning myself. I have the worst habit of trying to move a small part while I'm soldering and burning off my fingernail because I forgot to pick up the solder pick first. Fingernails don't smell like chicken. My left thumb still has a tender place on it from 2 months ago where I burned it like that. It just got rock hard. Eventually it all peeled away. Now it's very smooth. I didn't sniff it when it happened. I wonder what I smell like cooked? Barbara Dream Master

"Do not spoil what you have, by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for."

I have heard of putting a burn next to the fire, but Steve is the first to claim to have tried it. Personally, I never had the guts. Curtiss Brock (furnace glassblower) told me once that nerves need oxygen to operate so a good thing to do with a burn (at least from a comfort level) is to immerse it in cool tap water. I have done that on several occasions, and it does seem to work. I did stick my hand in the flame once. Cooked me pretty good. Kept it clean and bandaged, but allow air to circulate. It healed just fine, although there was a scary part when I thought I was going to need skin grafts. Burns do get infected easily. Make sure to keep it clean and change the bandages often.

I've done it with cooking burns from grease by holding my hand near the burner and it worked but is so much more difficult that next to a torch. I tried it with a iron burn on my tummy and I couldn't hold the iron up that long or that close without going spastic. If I weren't so spastic I wouldn't have run the iron into my tummy in the first place. I stay away from the torch because of that.

I've seen Steve do it hundreds of time over the last 8 years and it really works! Heard of it from a blacksmith.

Susan W

That is always the first thing I do with a major burn, find something large enough to immerse the body part in and fill it with water and a little ice. Then I keep the burned part in it for an hour or two. By the time I take it out, the worst is usually over. (depending on the burn or course....). Unless I'm working, of course, then I might forget to soak it until I finish whatever has riveted my attention to the point where I wasn't feeling the pain. Then it all catches up much too quickly. I also keep a large, healthy aloe plant on a shelf in my laundry room. After the burn has been appropriately soaked, I cut off a leaf section and slit it open. Then I tape it to the burn, juicy side against the skin. The burns always heal quickly and never get infected. (knock on wood) Barbara Dream Master

"Do not spoil what you have, by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for."

I will say that you don't have a blister and you don't have pain and it works fine as long as you don't hold it so close as to cause more damage. As you notice I said without doing further damage. Susan W

Oops. That's what I did with my burn. I held an ice cube on it.

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Yes. Cold water. It stops the flesh from cooking. You need to do this or you get a worse burn, sometimes going from one stage to another, even! ! ! ! ! But no ice.>

definitely UNLESS you have a third degree burn - in that case - get thee to a hospital fast...... Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass