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adrian_turtleThe water that comes from those instant hot water taps may not be hot enough to make very good black tea, but it is hot enough to scald. Just in case there was any doubt in anyone's mind about the wisdom of dropping 23 ounces of such water on a foot (with or without sugar and a harbor teabag.) I advise against it.
Now I have a burn on my ankle, where the top parts of a laced shoe (the parts called the tongue and the collar) tend to rub against it. I like wearing laced shoes if I'm going to be doing much walking. I have some flimsy little shoes that don't touch the burn, but don't have any arch support either, and walking across Cambridge in them yesterday made me very cranky. I've tried several ways of bandaging and padding the burn, but always ended up with bandage-material sticking to blisters. The biggest bandage I can find that's made of non-stick material designed not to stick to a wound is attached to an adhesive strip, and the non-stick part is too small. I didn't want to stick the adhesive to any of the small closed blisters next to the big open blisters. The shape of an ankle makes it hard to bandage; everything shifts when I move. I've been using stretch gauze, and foam "underwrap" for taping joints, and nonwoven sterile pads, and everything sticks. Or slips. Or both. Ointments with petroleum jelly and antibiotics help some (with the sticking. The opened blisters aren't infected, but I don't know if the antibiotics deserve any particular credit) despite all the dire warnings about not putting oil-based goop on burns.
This looks like it's going to be a nuisance for quite a while, so I'd appreciate any advice you people have about bandaging large, inconvenient, sticky, places.
Now I have a burn on my ankle, where the top parts of a laced shoe (the parts called the tongue and the collar) tend to rub against it. I like wearing laced shoes if I'm going to be doing much walking. I have some flimsy little shoes that don't touch the burn, but don't have any arch support either, and walking across Cambridge in them yesterday made me very cranky. I've tried several ways of bandaging and padding the burn, but always ended up with bandage-material sticking to blisters. The biggest bandage I can find that's made of non-stick material designed not to stick to a wound is attached to an adhesive strip, and the non-stick part is too small. I didn't want to stick the adhesive to any of the small closed blisters next to the big open blisters. The shape of an ankle makes it hard to bandage; everything shifts when I move. I've been using stretch gauze, and foam "underwrap" for taping joints, and nonwoven sterile pads, and everything sticks. Or slips. Or both. Ointments with petroleum jelly and antibiotics help some (with the sticking. The opened blisters aren't infected, but I don't know if the antibiotics deserve any particular credit) despite all the dire warnings about not putting oil-based goop on burns.
This looks like it's going to be a nuisance for quite a while, so I'd appreciate any advice you people have about bandaging large, inconvenient, sticky, places.
