The other day, I burned my finger on my grill. I was reaching over to unscrew the propane tank and found that I’d left the really really hot lid sitting just a bit too close.
I ended up with a blister on the burn site, which is, what, a second degree burn? Anyway, today while working in the lab, I noticed that the blister was really close to bursting. I didn’t want to risk it popping on its own, because then it could get infected with who knows what. Our lab DOES share space with the infectious disease lab, after all.
So I poked around, found some sterile gauze, a scalpel, and a band-aid, and performed surgery on myself. I just washed my finger well, sliced the sucker right open, drained it out, and bandaged it.
If the answers are yes, yes and no, then you might be a physician. People with PhDs are Doctors too, but the PhDs I know have different answers to the above questions.
Well I respect your ingenuity. I once removed 14 sutchers from my right forearm, the wound looked sufficiently healed to me and I decided it was time for them to come out. After treating the sutchers with antiseptic and my brain with a little bourbon, I clipped the sutchers with a wire cutter and pulled them through with a pair of needle-nose pliers. No waiting room, no paperwork, no bill.
If I ever need it, I’m sure I could pull off some do-it-yourself LASIK surgery.
And, if you think you overcharged yourself, you may want to play lawyer too.
In that case, you could sue yourself for your blatent overcharging of yourself and your fradulent billing practices. You know that you would not stand a chance against yourself in court, especially if you chose to put yourself on the stand and subject yourself to your normal scathing examination. A judgement in your favor could result in you having to compensate yourself heavily.
A friend does something WEIRD to blisters that I’ve never seen EVER ANYWHERE that seems to work wonderfully:
She takes a needle and thread, spikes the blister and feeds the thread right through it and leaves it in - about an inch each side.
That’s all. The blister then drains through the thread quite slowly so the skin doesn’t end up all flappy, the hole doesn’t close up because it can’t until you pull the thread out.
TOTIRL I had a burn blister on my wrist from changing the cutting level of the lawn mower and touching the exhaust shield (The front and back lawns are now cut to the same height). I usually “played doctor” and drained the blister, but this time I was thinking, “hey, I’ll let this one alone and see what happens.” It was an inch long, 1/4 inch wide and 1/4 inch tall or so.
Not much happened until I reached into the pocket of my jeans and scraped it off on the edge of the pocket. Didn’t really hurt much, I felt dumb cause my experiment failed. Although some may say I lack initiative, I decided to not burn myself on purpose on a portion of my body less likely to have a burn blister scraped off.
