So I was really into the game yesterday when I was cooking dinner. I was a bit distracted, but I was trying really hard to make dinner without messing anything up. (Which would be a major achievement for me) So I was juggling several things - spaghetti sauce, and spaghetti on the stove, baked chicken in the oven and freshly baked garlic bread. So I was trying to move things around and watching baseball at the same time. And I picked up the tray with garlic bread in the hand that DIDN’T have the oven mitt on it.

It took me a second or two to register why I was feeling a searing pain in my fingers. Then I realized that happened and screamed like a banshee. Dave, on the couch watching the game, shot up and asked what was wrong. I told him I burned my hand and he asked how bad it was. It actually wasn’t too bad, so he told me to immerse it in cool, but not cold water.

Unfortunately, we had just moved in, so we haven’t stocked our medicine cabinet so we had no ointment of any kind so I had to work through the pain. If I took my hand out of the water, I would get a searing, burning pain in my fingers (just my fingers and thumb). The pain subsided after an hour or so, and the area then switched from a small burning hypersensitivity to numbness. I’ve got the tray marking seared into my fingers which makes for interesting blisters.

So yeah.

Ouch.

Luckily, although my typing was impeded last night, I am once again able to work normally and type. No need for anyone to panic.
So with my one hand and my one eye, I should be able to park in handicapped space now, right?

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