I am 8 mos post and I did a silly thing last week. At work, I microwaved some soup for 3 minutes in a large mug and then placed it between my legs to take it back to my desk. I didn't realize until that night when I took off my pants that I had 2nd degree burns! Well, my doctor drained the blisters and said they should heal fine as long as I prevent infection (I'm using bacitracin). I guess its a good thing I can't feel anything 'cause I've heard these kinds of burns hurt for weeks. Anybody else do something silly without realizing it while still getting used to your new condition?

I burnt my leg by dropping cooked pasta (including boiling water) on it (lower leg and foot).

Didn't think too much of it because I could not feel it. Four week later I was having 3 toe nails removed because the blisters had caused them to become in growing.

It was not long after my SCI and I screamed in pain when I did it thinking it would hurt when it didn''t LOL

Cripes I really hope that heals okay for you!!

I burnt my left leg on a motorbike (with side car so I couldn't fall off!) exhaust when my leg dropped and I did not grab it quick enough. Didn't think much of it until the end of the ride when I realised my leathers were becoming intimate with my muscle.

The nurses were not at all impressed with me!

Sorry I know this is off topic but it caught my eye... 8 months and you're already back to work?? And went to your profile for more of your story, but no luck! Care to share?

Hope you get to feeling better... oh if you could feel -- it wouldn't have happened in the first place

This happened probably 3 years after my injury...

My Girlfreind and I we having lunch out somewhere. I had gotten her a drink and made the transfer over into the booth.

Ahh, the good old days when I was young and did transfers like they were nothing.

Anyway she asked me for some sugar or something for her drink. I knew it was back at the drink area and because I was slightly annoyed at her and me for not getting it earlier I wasn't really thinking. So I just pushed up as if to stand up and walk over to get it. It was one heck of a shock to me when I plopped right back down into the booth. I had forgotten I couldn't walk! HEHEHE

We actually both had a heck of a good laugh over that. Imagine over 3 years post injury and I had forgotten that I wasn't going to just stand up and walk over to the counter.

I posted my story on my profile. I had been meaning to anyway, just hadn't gotten around to it.

I've been paralysed all my life and *sill* burn my legs all the time! I'm really careful with them and use a burn cream called Acriflex.

BillS...that's brilliant!

Bill !!

This has happened to me many times . . . . in my DREAMS!!-lol
Except, I DO walk. Anyway, loved this story.

Sat on a craft knife while sitting on the floor laying carpet!

I never burn myself....until....

Recently, I was carrying a cup of coffee from one end of the house to the other, swapping from hand to hand. I do it all the time, it's automatic. So, absent-mindedly and automatically I fumbled and spilt some over my precious para pot tummy. More scars.

Moral: It's not just newbies.

This doesn't technically count as an accident but I think it fits. I just had a C-section and had a complication of a ruptured hemotoma 7 days after the operation and blew out half of my incision. I never felt a thing!! The incision has never bothered me either except all the while I have been recovering, I have this really deep pain that feels like someone sticking a hot poker inside me and moving it around on my left side. That is the only pain I have felt at all! So...I guess there is a good side to all of this. The down side? Every time you have to move, you use your arms (at least I do) and every time I move my arms it pulls my stomach muscles which were cut through. It took me 3 weeks to roll over by myself or sit up without help because of the awful poker pain in my side. Weird stuff!

This doesn't technically count as an accident but I think it fits. I just had a C-section and had a complication of a ruptured hemotoma 7 days after the operation and blew out half of my incision. I never felt a thing!! The incision has never bothered me either except all the while I have been recovering, I have this really deep pain that feels like someone sticking a hot poker inside me and moving it around on my left side. That is the only pain I have felt at all! So...I guess there is a good side to all of this. The down side? Every time you have to move, you use your arms (at least I do) and every time I move my arms it pulls my stomach muscles which were cut through. It took me 3 weeks to roll over by myself or sit up without help because of the awful poker pain in my side. Weird stuff!

While I was reassembling my bed this weekend (with help from a friend - but I did most of the actual assembly! Take that, asexual Ikea drawing assembly people!), I somehow got my foot wedged under the bed. I didn't realize it for about two minutes, while I was screwing in the bedrails, and then turned to scootch myself across the floor to the other side... and was stuck. Thank heavens for carpet padding! Nothing wrong with my foot. Got a good laugh out of my friend, though.

I regularly leave my phone in my trouser pocket on vibrate, burn my foot on the taps in the bath, sit on my keys for hours on end and shout OUCH when I bump my knee.

I shot a nun through my own kneecap trying to conceal my pistol under the chair.

There's a lesson in there somewhere. ;)

Less than 6 months post, I got out of my truck and onto the ground, face first. I was driving, had a friend with me, and we were talking about something that had happened earlier that day. When we pulled up to our friend's house, I opened the door, turned, and "stepped" out... Too bad the legs didn't actually move. (No, I had not had a drink of alcohol yet that day. That's what we went to my friends house for.) I hit the ground face/shoulder first, and when I sat up, my friend in the truck was like "Hey, you want this?" and was trying to hand me the lift control. I said "Sure. Now you ask. Where were you when I was diving out the truck like a retard?" He has a head injury, so I understand the slow reaction time, but he was about to fall out the truck laughing at me. The friend who's drive we'd pulled into came out of the house just in time to see me hit the ground. He was laughing so hard, he couldn't even stop long enough to ask me if I needed help. I just took the lift control and got the chair around, and got myself up. We went inside and I took care of the bloody nose and headache with some paper towels and a few glasses of Crown and Coke.

I have done the same thing with putting hot things on my legs without even thinking about it. My husband is always getting on to me about it haha. I think the craziest thing I did was set my flat iron on my leg. I was fixing my hair and just set the iron on my leg without thinking. I didn't have burns as bad as yours but I did have a red spot for a few days. I got lucky and my husband didn't notice it if it did it would have been bye bye to using the iron and having cute hair.

I am pretty careful withh hot cups and stuff around the kitchen. My first burn experience happened in my car. I was getting changed for bed one night and noticed a massive blister on my knee. I had no idea how it got there. It took me days to figure out that I had burnt my knee on the metal part of myhand control bar of my car. It was the middle of summer and had been around 40 degrees C for a week so the hand control had been cooking all day in sun and when I got in for the two minute drive home my knee must have briefy rested on the metal section of the hand control.
Something to think about if you live in a hot climate.

Oh yeah and I am guilty of saying 'ouch' when I bash my legs with things, I quickly finish up the 'ouch' with, 'that must have hurt'.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. It gets pretty hot here in South Texas.

I have managed to do a few stupid things, a few spring immediately to mind!
The first was when I had crashed out on the sofa and the house phone started to ring, i suddenly woke up and tried to get up to answer it unfortunately my brain wasn't quite awake enough and seemed to forget that I was paralysed and I promptly fell off the sofa straight onto the floor, this obviously immediately woke my brain up! The annoying thing was that the phone was in arms reach of me all the time.

The second time was i managed to drop a hot baking tray onto my foot and gave myself an amazing burn on my toe, it went green and everything! (I have photographic evidence of this injury if anyone wants to view the grossness.)

I have gone over backwards in my chair several times and even managed to give myself concussion once. Once was when I just got a new chair and was 'fiddling' with the COG and slightly over did it by a teensy weensy amount and my head rapidly made contact with my tiled kitchen floor!

I'm sure there are others and I am sure there are more to come!

Trinity - I have done the backwards thing one time when I over-COG'd. Thankfully, I have only done it once and I was in front of my bed when it happened so the bed helped break my fall. They only thing hurt was my pride!!:)

I’ve fallen out of my chair when I leaned forward once. The grandkids thought this was funny as I actually landed on all fours and was able to hold myself there untill my husband got me in my chair. This was 2 years post SCI and I guess I forgot I didn’t have stomach muscle control. But then again I used to fall a lot when I was AB. I have fallen 5 times in the 2 ½ year as a para. This is probably less than my AB falls in same time.

Years ago I tried out a 'Cherry Yaught' a gas powered scooter, powered by a briggs stranton engine which exhausted right by my legs( which I did not know at the time), made quite a mess of my right knee but i was fine in about a month...

That would be a Chair-e-Yacht. Just bought one for a song. I will keep well back from the motor.

I have SOME feeling in my legs.....but not enough obviously; I've done it quite a few times. Carried the pizza box home on my lap & after we ate dinner & went in to use the restroom I noticed 1st degree burn on the tops of my legs. Did cold compresses on them for a couple more hrs to see if the redness would go away.....nope, ER trip & some antibiotic ointment.

This 1st one wasn't me, but while I was in the hospital after the physio broke my leg I was in a room with 4 beds. The old guy in the bed across from me just had a leg amputated. In the middle of the night he tried (key word is TRIED) to get up and go to the bathroom. He didn't make it.

The first time I fell was in the hospital right in front of the nurses desk. I was trying out a few different chairs at the time and was just coming back from PT where I was working on wheelies for the 1st time. I kick ass at them now. Anyway, the anti tippers never got put back properly so just as I got to the desk, over I went. I still remember Alison behind the desk 'O shit!' Before I even hit the ground.

The worst I ever wiped out was at my sisters place for her birthday last August. Forgot I took the wheelie bars off, leaned back, and did a complete backflip. Smacked my head on the cement, then my knees hit the cement behind me.

Another time while getting out of bed my hands slipped and I had kinda a rough transfer. About an hour later I went to the bathroom to cath and realised I had been sitting on my . . . Self for the last hour. Took about 4 hours for the purple to return to a normal colour.

I need to know if NUN is a typo for GUN or an assault on a religious lady!!

Tin

Haha. I wanted to know that as well, but didn't want to start another religious thread so I kept shtum!

The moral to the story is don't try to conceal a gun

I was fooling, but I did mean Nun!

I had a microwave curry the other night and in my rush to eat forgot to use a tray, redness spotted and iced accordingly.

Graybeard, you've parted the sea now!--haha

The one I remember most is when I was at a bass fishing tourney being held for us crips. They managed to lift my fat behind into one of those overpowered rowboats, as they did for each of the "chaired" participants. Apparantly, sometime during the day I left a lure on my lap while changing to another,,,, and forgot about it.

Later, after having been, again, manhandled from the boat and going through the buffet line,, I noticed the lure,,,, it has two treble hooks,, both of which were embeded in my stomach. It took a friend and his leatherman ( a pocket tool with a lot of accessories,, like a swiss army knife on steroids) about a half hour to get it out of me.

It healed up fairly quickly,, but I continued to get pressure sores,,, for lack of a better description,,,, where my waistband rubbed that spot, for monthes afterward.
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Along with the burning story.. I didn't mean to but while I was crimping my hair I ended up dropping my crimper not once, but twice on my bare skin on my legs!! I actually had the name brand of the crimper branded on me for a while! Now just ugly scars...

Back when I had legs I was working for my dads company as an oilfield mechanic. One time I burnt my arm on a piece of flex tubing on the exaust of a 46 arrow (single cylinder motor). For the longest time I had a scar on my arm shaped like the lettet 'E' (for exaust' I guess)

Ask Plexico, he found out the harder way. 2 years, huh

Lmao, yep

I think we all do stupid things once in a while. I dumped hot pasta (as in boiling) onto my hand and stomach a couple of years ago. Got the hand under cold water right away but forgot that I could not feel the burn on my stomach. When I finally got to it, it was very deep with blisters on it. Spent some time with ice on it and have a surprise treatment for you all.

My helper came that night and immediately got out the Preparation H - yes, that is right, hemoroid treatment. Oinment works best- but make sure that it contains the shark fin oil - that seems to be the key treatment. She smeared the stuff on my stomach and my fingers and hands were killing me as I am a para. When she got to my fingers, I skeptically said, "so, how long will this take to wor.... oooooo- much better!" and I am not kidding! Took the heat and pain out of my hand immediately. Had to reapply every few hours but by the second day, things were looking great. My stomach healed cleanly - a little slower than my hand but still healed well.

Since then, I have used it on people with sun burn and after radiation treatment on my lower torso last winter, the radiation burns were healed with the stuff after I got home from the hospital. Just could not convice the nurses and doctors to let me put Prep H on those burns while I was in the hospital.

So, keep it in mind when you burn yourself. It really does work. Take care out there.

Cool! (as in the prep H not the burning!!)

I decided to in order to avoid another weekend sat watching everyone else having all of the fun while they wind me up with the "just sit there and rest" and "why don't you go and lay down" that I would stay up all night so that I can spend tomorrow asleep and generally out of the way.

It seemed to make sense at the time but since it's about 03:30 I'm guessing it's probably a little late to change my mind...

Does this count as stupid?

If that is stupid, then I do stupid stuff all the time, lol.

The other week I stayed away for 27 hours because I wasn't tired, so when 5am came around, I decided to stay awake. Then when I got back from going out, I was exhausted, and I couldn't fall asleep. So I stayed awake for 6 more hours. But then I slept for 17 hours, so it balanced out fairly well. But two summers ago I was awake for 3 days straight because I would stay up late, and decide not to fall asleep, then when a decent time to fall asleep came around, I couldn't sleep, so I would stay awake again. It was terrible! I still have a wacky sleep schedule, but it is getting better.

& ouch, 2nd degree burns, not fun. I went to Reno a while back, and I sat out in the sun without sunscreen for so long, and I almost had 2nd degree burns, my mom and grandma definitely had 2nd degree burns.

Ooh, I did a stupid, but lucky thing once. I was elevating one of my legs because there was a mysterious cut on the foot, and had my computer on my lap to play with while elevating. When I picked it up, I realized that the computer's fan had given me a giant burn on my thigh. I went to the ER to get it checked out. The burn was second-degree but relatively simple to treat, but when they checked my foot they discovered that it wasn't just a cut but instead a deep pressure sore beside my pinky toe. I can't say I'm happy that I got the burn, but it was an amazing blessing that the hospital figured out I had the sore on my toe before it got infected or reached the bone.

Ouch! I'm a little slow in the response, but that doesn't sound too fun. My boyfriend and I were at a cookout the other day and then it got cold so we made a fire and he made sure to stay the same distance as me that way if I got too hot then he knew that he needed to move back also. It's easy to not think of something that simple!

i tend to forget my feet sticking out in front and use them like battering rams to push doors open then when carers undress me for bed and remove my long white stockings to find my toes covered in blood im on warfarin so you can imagine how much i bleed i just dont remember until ive done it

Thanks for the stories, glad to know I'm not the only one who gets brain lock. The burns are almost completely healed now, just waiting for the last of scabs to fall off. I now have two egg-shaped scars on the insides of my thighs as a reminder of this episode.

I did the same thing with a cup of coffee. Now I use commuter cups to transport anything hot.

I was back to work in five months. It was exhausting, but I did it.

Or shoot at Nuns!

I burnt myself the exact same way. Few weeks ago