[mcferguson]

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?

[Little Alex]

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

[ClaraTaylor]

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!

[Texas Angel Ang]

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

[BillS]

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.

This post has been edited by BillS: 19 August 2009 - 06:44 PM

[mcferguson]

Texas Angel Ang, on Aug 19 2009, 01:14 PM, said:

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

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

[Avocado Baby]

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!

[qbounce]

Bill !!

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

[Tinbasher]

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

[nomis]

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 post has been edited by nomis: 19 August 2009 - 10:58 PM

[rue2you]

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!

[chickadee]

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.

[Lucydog]

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.

[dancin' johnny]

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

[chickadee]

dancin' johnny, on Aug 19 2009, 08:30 PM, said:

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

There's a lesson in there somewhere. ;)

[Jax]

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.

[Heather1984]

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.

[pistol_pete]

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'.

[mcferguson]

pistol_pete, on Aug 21 2009, 11:14 AM, said:

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.

[Trinity]

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!

This post has been edited by trinity: 21 August 2009 - 10:32 PM

[rue2you]

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!!

[carole338]

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.

[Meadowlarkmark]

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...

[oldwheelz]

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

[wheeliebear75]

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.

[Ratticis]

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.

[ClaraTaylor]

Ratticis, on Aug 23 2009, 09:49 AM, said:

Took about 4 hours for the purple to return to a normal colour.

[Tinbasher]

dancin' johnny, on Aug 20 2009, 02:30 AM, said:

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

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

Tin

[greybeard]

Tinbasher, on Aug 23 2009, 10:08 PM, said:

dancin' johnny, on Aug 20 2009, 02:30 AM, said:

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

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!

[Ratticis]

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