An acquaintance who works for a contractor friend put some gasoline
on a soon-to-be bonfire over the July 4th. Then he bent down to light it.
Whoosh!
Gasoline is not only a highly flammable liquid, but it evaporates quickly
to form a combustible gas, thru which a flame front quickly moves.
It's explosive. (I blew up a pot belly stove once. Kids are dumb.)
A couple weeks later now, he's due to be released from the burn unit.
He'll move in with a nurse whose house he & the contractor were
working on. Useful to be on friendly terms with the client, eh.
Anyway, he just barely managed to avoid needing skin grafts.
But the pain from scrubbing away dead skin is so bad that he
was anesthetized during the procedure. Yeah, he's a mess.
Around a quarter of his body...face...arms...hands...was burned.
The nurse says that burns will have long term deleterious effects
on joints & muscle strength too. (I didn't know that.)
Be careful out there, folks.
Oh, this is inconvenient for me. It put work on my property behind
schedule. So I texted Cody....who is now "Fire Marshall Cody"
(after In Living Color's Fire Marshall Bill).....
Get well soon.
There's work to do!
on a soon-to-be bonfire over the July 4th. Then he bent down to light it.
Whoosh!
Gasoline is not only a highly flammable liquid, but it evaporates quickly
to form a combustible gas, thru which a flame front quickly moves.
It's explosive. (I blew up a pot belly stove once. Kids are dumb.)
A couple weeks later now, he's due to be released from the burn unit.
He'll move in with a nurse whose house he & the contractor were
working on. Useful to be on friendly terms with the client, eh.
Anyway, he just barely managed to avoid needing skin grafts.
But the pain from scrubbing away dead skin is so bad that he
was anesthetized during the procedure. Yeah, he's a mess.
Around a quarter of his body...face...arms...hands...was burned.
The nurse says that burns will have long term deleterious effects
on joints & muscle strength too. (I didn't know that.)
Be careful out there, folks.
Oh, this is inconvenient for me. It put work on my property behind
schedule. So I texted Cody....who is now "Fire Marshall Cody"
(after In Living Color's Fire Marshall Bill).....
Get well soon.
There's work to do!