Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Burn on finger, how to determine if it's serious...?

Like a huge dork, I hot glued my finger and burned the crap out of it. Like, it blistered within 5 seconds of me burning it. I pulled the hot glue off of my finger as soon as it happened, and there was white wrinkled skin where a blister had already formed AND popped. Anyway, it was killing me. Almost literally. I popped the next blister that developed but didn't remove the skin immediately, and it continued to leak fluid for 24 hours. I removed the skin and it continued to create fluid for the next 5ish hours. That was on Tuesday morning. Now, Friday night, the thing still hurts like a you-know-what, I can't straighten or bend my finger all the way. The sore is about the size of a quarter on the side of my finger tip, yet I can feel the pain down to my first knuckle. I think I may have actually burned (like, to ashes) the very top layer of skin. The outside of the wound is starting to heal up, but it has a very red, painful nucleus that is still kind of bubbled and looks almost like another blister. If you look at the profile of the burn, you can see obvious an obvious indentation where the finger is, I don't know, scarring? It basically just looks like someone/something bit a small chunk out of my finger. Anyway, it's not infected, just uber painful, but my Google search on the issue sent me to a lot of websites that freaked me out, like I'm going to lose my finger or something lol. Just wondering if this sounded severe enough to have it looked at, or if I should just chill out and let it do it's thing.

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