Jun 05, 2016
OUCH!
Our sweet girl Carmeh. I just love the way her left paw is folded over the blanket.
We had a near major event with her yesterday. In the past you might remember seeing Caeli sitting in her round bed outside on the top front step. We were all sitting outside in the shade yesterday. Despite the heat there was a slight breeze which made it tolerable. We did have the A/C on inside the house but who wants to sit in that all day? Today we are sitting inside as it is very hot out there as in 36C/97F with not even a whisper of a breeze. Part of the reason we were sitting outside yesterday was because Carmeh kept eating grass and would not stop. Thinking she was hungry I gave her some extra food which she wolfed down and went right back to eating grass. She ate grass constantly for over 30 minutes and I feared she was going to upchuck so we kept her outside.
Here she is nibbling next to the art work we have in memory of Channel who loved butterflies. Carmeh did eventually settle down in the grass. Colin and I started to read facing the lake but in the shade of the house on the grass not the patio.
Colin heard a noise and jumped up and saw Carmeh walking around from the side of the front steps.
Carmeh had been making a nest of Caeli’s bed and was backing up and fell off the top of the steps to the cement. She never uses that bed.
Well except for the one time and I happened to be at the open front door and she did the same thing and I had to pull the bed toward the railing so she would not fall. Caeli just plops into the bed and never moves nor makes a nest of it. What a distance for her to fall and she was perfectly fine and still is today. Rather amazing. I did give her a dose of Metacam with her dinner and will do so for the next few nights. She has to be somewhat sore. However she did walk just fine this morning.
Some of you will be wondering why there is no railing on that side of the steps. It was a decision we made to make loading and unloading the RV easier without having to walk around and up and down the stairs with everything. It is great for unloading groceries also. Just walk up to the top step/landing and slide things on and off. The steps are wide enough and this just was a freak accident. We are so relieved that she is fine.
The next big ouch was me. Our convection/microwave totally shut down during dinner preparations last night so I switched to the stove oven. I burnt myself. Instead of my usual removal of the hot item from high to low I was lifting from the lower oven and up. That is how I got hurt. You have know how it was bad for me, to call the Nurse hotline at 811. But after several hours of cold gel packs the pain was still intense. It was suggested that I go into ER to get checked. Instead Colin went to a few stores all the way into Kelowna as the stores here in Lake Country were already closed. He finally found buttermilk at Safeway. Yes buttermilk.
Cold buttermilk compresses take the heat out of a burn. It really works and the trick is to keep the bowl of buttermilk in the fridge between compresses. It is wet and messy hence the white garbage bag and big bunch of paper towel to mop up with. We just use dish clothes as the compress. One on the wound and the other in the bowl in the fridge. Gently squeeze out some of the liquid before applying over and over and over.
800mg of Ibuprofen every 8 hours for the first 24 hours really helps. The pain was greatly diminished by 2AM when I took a narcotic pain pill and with a cold gel pack on my arm fell asleep for four hours.
I had pressed my arm along the side of 425F cookie sheet. It still hurts today especially as it is on the inside of my arm and keeps brushing against my dress.
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Glad Carmeh is okay!
As for your burn, OUCH. I learned this winter that a second degree burn can be preferable to a first degree one. The pain was more intense at first, but then it went away much faster than with a first degree burn. The two fingers that had the first degree burns ached for days, but the one that had the second degree burn didn’t bother me much at all.
Good that Carmeh is fine.
Burns are no fun and very painful. I had my share in the kitchen of my restaurant along with cuts.
Glad that you got it taken care of.
I have a matching burn on my right arm that I got while juggling a hot frying pan about a week ago. It quit hurting soon after but the mark is taking a long time to go away. Like George says, burns are no fun!