Via RSS feed.July 28th, 2010
Burnshield – Where Were You?
Some of my LONG time blog readers may remember that in the very, very early days of this blog I received a terrible boiling water burn on my left foot (it left an ugly scar.) I spilled some boiling water on top of my foot, and ouch, the burn was huge, I couldn’t walk, and after a couple of weeks it started to look/act sort of infected and hurt even more, so it was off to the doctor!
That experience has taught me that it pays to have some medical supplies on hand at home (like Burnshield dressings.) When I did arrive at the hospital, they treated my foot for several days with a very wonderful, pain relieving, burn healing ointment that contained silver. I can’t help but think that if we’d had a greater assortment of medical supplies on hand, my healing time and lack of mobility could have been dramatically shortened.
Even proper immediate care after the burn would have been great. Sadly, we didn’t have any Burnshield dressings amongst our medical supplies, so we just winged it. Oh Burnshield, where were you?
Live and learn…
