neilsleder
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burns are one of the worst possible pains.... early in life(early 20's) was working on one of the hundreds of propane powered taxis(we did a lot of the conversions) and the car I was working on, needed a remote fill installed. The owner failed to tell us it had a propane leak, and it filled the trunk. when I started to hole cut for the remote fittings, it exploded, knocking me about 20 ft backwards into the shop door. I had 2 and 3 degree burns on my head and hands/arms. I roll up my coverall sleeves, like I still do, so burnt up to there... I had a cheesy early 80's style moustache at the time, and it melted back across my face and my eyebrows and hair were all melted backwards... I was in hospital for about 3 weeks, on heavy morphine for the first 2 weeks, and saline baths almost every 3 hours as well as constant wrap changes/cleaning .... skin on my face and arms were badly melted, and would come off in slabs.... they thought i'd be disfigured from the burns, but because of my youngish age, recovered almost 100 percent. when cold out, I can still see the line on my arms from where they burned up to, as it's a little different color, and that's about it.... I've shattered an ankle/leg skateboarding, separated my pelvis sledding, several broken fingers in several different sports, broken back from a car accident, separated shoulder from a car accident, and several bad cuts, but no pain(other than the separated pelvis) has even been close to the pain of bad burns, that I've experienced.....
As a welder I been burnt more then the average person and I have to agree it's the worse! If you break, pinch, sprain or even cut something you can usually sit or move it in a way it don't hurt as bad. But burning just hurts no matter what!
Glad to here you made it out ok overall!
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