Yuck. No more swimsuit competitions for you. Hopefully that will heal up quickly and well.

The two antibiotics have different modes of action, one is a metabolic inhibitor (folic acid), the other I think is a cell wall synthesis inhibitor. Both are sort of weak, but in combo they'll likely be more effective... keep in mind that infection is still very possible, so you might end up getting a third and 4th to try.


Two thoughts. First, people, please, enough with the open containers of white gas near flame. That makes the baby jesus cry. Second, those colman containers will not explode (right away) if they get lit. Put the cap back on or cover with something to smother. I know it is scary, but it will go out (yes I have done it, and the same with glass bottles of burning methanol, but I would prefer not to demonstrate for the sake of argument). Now if they are sitting in a huge burning puddle, that is a problem, and run/get a fire extinguisher.

Oh, and while we are at it, even if you don't have a safety blanket, use your shirt. If you are wearing something that isn't synthetic (and we all know better than that), you have a sort of decent fireblanket on your back. As we just heard, stop drop and roll does not work when you are soaked in flammable liquid (it actually make make it worse by fanning the flames, unless you are on sand of the playa or something that will smother). Shirts work better than hands to smother, but hands work two. Once I was shirtless and had about half of my leg on fire, tried to pat out, then tried to wipe it out, then decided to crumple the lit area into a ball, which worked. The next step would have been to remove the pants, and nobody wanted to see that.

They're your injuries, so I won't cut and paste, but you should upload those pics to this tribe.

damn! gnarly is right. bet you'll never try that again.

the whole "shirt as fire blanket" seems like a really intense reflex building exercise. the drop down menu of "what can fix this NOW" usually omits my own clothing.

best of luck healing, Albie. by the last round of photos it didn't look nearly as bad. keep up on the silvadene. it's injuries like yours that the stuff is great for.

peace.

ahhh!
it looks like you are in for at least a month of hard painful recuperation. not to seem unsympathetic, but i did the same goddamn stupid ass thing and suffered for over a month.....
bandages three times a day, stinky creams, and pealing bandages off one at a time.
suggestion: use the damned sulfadine crap!, second, get the " non stick" bandages, the " non stick" part should be for obvious reasons.third, keep the leg elevated, the blood flowing through the wound area starts to pulsate with PAIN and take whatever pain meds you can get you hands on..
i was able to put my leg out within a few seconds by pulling my jacket off and wrapping i around my leg and i still got a massive 2nd degree burn. makes me want to take a wet towel wear ever i go.