I’m amazed that Zsofia hasn’t thought of the American way of handling this. SUE THE BASTARDS! No warning labels on the skillet handle? You got 'em by the short and curlies! Pain! Suffering! Punitive damages!! I’m seeing the high six figures here. Go for it!
Stop that!
And whatever you do, DO NOT stagger in to work nursing a hangover, and accidentally run an acetylene torch with a rosebud tip across the back of your hand, turning the skin to jelly which falls off before your horrified and very bloodshot eyes. Definitely.
Not so much painful as stiff, uncomfortable, and weird. [Insert obligatory penis- ex gf joke here. :D]
The burn doc told me my face would feel like fine glove leather once it was healed, and he was absolutely right. I had the remaining major scars removed a few years after the initial event, so I’m not noticeably disfigured. If I smile or laugh it feels like pins and needles.
I did get into trouble on a job a few years ago when my boss felt uncomfortable around me because she couldn’t “read my face”. Granted, my face doesn’t have the mobility a normal person’s does, but I’ve consistently done the face stretching exercises over the years and my facial expression isn’t a problem for most people.
Most of the burned areas are grafted. The grafted skin feels like it’s my own, and not my own at the same time.
Over the years, I’ve regained over 90 % of the use of my hands, which is one of the happiest surprises. It was a steady year by year progression, from almost no function and daily physical therapy to being able to feed myself, and then drive.
I’d resigned myself to never being able to use a keyboard more than a half hour at at time because of massive swelling [insert second obligatory penis joke her :D], but even that went away after 3 years or so. I do daily stretching and strength exercises with my hands too, to maintain the flexibility.
Worried about the hand, Zsofia.
Signs of infection?
Nope, Himself turns out to be a terrific nurse. It’s still stiff, and there are dark areas where the burn was worst, and it’s a bit shiny, but no more pain and everything operates as it should.
I’m late to the thread, but I’ll add a few of my own calamities.
First of all, I better never commit a crime, because a have a scar right in the center of my right thumb from grabbing a flaming hot wire coat-hanger. S’Mores, Girl Scouts, 1991. (Okay, I’m kidding about the year, but somewhere around there.)
One of my more recent travails involves the new raspberry jelly donuts from Trader Joe’s. The package instructions said to heat them for 20 seconds. To be safe, I did 15 seconds. I let them stand. I took them out of the microwave and gently poked and prodded all around. Barely warm, lukewarm even. I took a bite. Hot raspberry goo squirted out all over my tongue. Ouch.
The technical term for that is “fruit magma.”
I’m laughing at all the people who had the presence of mind to set something down gently despite the fact it was cooking them. Happened to me too. I was pouring some hot liquid sugar into a tiny ice cream cone as part of an individual flan experiment (Note: didn’t work), when a big drop of sugar lava hit my finger and started rolling down. During the moment of shock, I carefully set down the pot of hot sugar and the little cone and quietly placed my finger under some cool running water. Then I made with the AieeeeohgodIburnedmyfuckingfingeroff! The sugar carved a little valley into my middle finger and left a raised zigzag scar. I like to hold my finger up and show it to people.
Last night I was frying (burning) some potato slices (I was sober and it was around 8pm) and was taking them off just before the oil started to smoke. I was using a fish slice (metal spatula) and a fork to retrieve my golden wedges when several fell back into the half inch of oil and splashed/stuck to my left hand.
Rather than calmly lower the utensil and turn to the tap water I threw everything and yelled “ohhfaaaarrrryyyooouuukkeeeetttaaahhhh” and ran out of the kitchen. After maybe 3 more seconds I had my hand under the tap, then in a pyrex container with water and ice. It stung like a mf when ever I took it out of the soothing water so I stayed like that until past 3am last night. Now I have a few nice blisters on that hand and the one on the joint of my thumb will be particularly troublesome, no doubt. Oh, and my aloe vera plant vanished from my garden last weekend. :mad:
Keep a close eye on that burn. Do NOT let it get infected. Infected burns are bad.
Yes, I am speaking from experience.
Happend to me once…but I was ironing clothes and some called on the phone. 
My wife set herself on fire when she was three years old & playing with matches. She had third-degree burns on her right leg, stretching from her knee to her hip and across towards her navel. Lots of time in hospital and had to learn to walk all over again. Now it only seems to bother her if the scaring get exposed to the sun for long periods.
I know this is an old thread, but it’s still good!
Something very similar happened to me last week. I had just made a frozen pizza in the oven, and used a potholder to pick up the pan (good on me!). Then, not thinking, with my other hand I grabbed the metal handle of the cast iron skillet that had been sitting on top of the stove (to move it and make room for my pizza). My obscenities rang out down the block… thankfully it didn’t blister, though.
The only time I’ve ever had a burn go to blisters was on a band trip to Florida in high school. In March, no less! I was 14 and white as a ghost, but only applied sunscreen at the start of our Cocoa Beach day because, well, it was March and I didn’t think it’d be a big deal. Well, later that night I wished I’d been wearing a burqa all day, because I was in pain for the rest of the week (along with all the other white girls). Thankfully, one of the chaperones had thought to bring Solarcaine. It helped me sleep at night, but still… blisters out the rump! 
(not literally, of course… my bathing suit covered my rump)
Well, she uses voice recognition software or just dictates to her carer.
(Too soon?)
Forever.
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I thought fire repelled zombies?
Think of all the other fun things that come with sensitive hands though…
Not affected your mind at all I hope…
Lucky me, worst burns I’ve had were from ironing. Just ironed a shirt towards my arm and managed to catch it in the same place twice. Had two little red marks, but they faded after a few weeks.
zombie or no
burns get remembered.
Hopefully I will remember the next time I have to fill a bunch of gas cans to feed the generator, that one must be careful not to splash even a small amount on clothing that covers sensitive skin. Whereas a decent keratin layer on skin of, say your hands protects you from spilled gas, the skin of your thigh is not similarly protected, as I found out last weekend when I splashed a little on my jeans and it soaked through, giving me a painful first degree burn. :smack:
Little trick for burns on hands and fingers. Shake your burnt hand vigorously. There will be no pain while you shake it. Of course, the pain will return when you stop shaking it, but, it works. Seriously.