Oh..I was in the middle of cutting out the bearing and needed to change position when I got hung..so I didnt want to turn off the torch..and frankly..turning off then relighting an A/O rig in a tight space isnt all that safe. WHen you relight it..you always leave a small cloud of A, that doesnt blow away immediately...
Cut out the old bearing race, installed the new one, installed the shaft and pulley and voila, good as new. Then I crawled back out and checked on my knee. Shrug..had already started to bubble. So I went out to the truck and got a pair of shorts and changed. The next day was when the big bubble busted. Stopped at a 99c Only store, got some gauze pads, some antibiotic oinment and went back out to the truck. Had to cut away the skin from that big bubble, so used my eating knife, after spraying it with carby cleaner, figured most bugs couldnt live in that shit.
DIdnt count on a couple ladies pulling up beside me and as Im cutting that big flap of skin way, having them walk around the truck.
One of them puked. I apologized to them both, I never could figure out why some folks have such a weak stomach. Covered the wound with antibiotic ointment, a gauze pad and went back to work.
The right hand took a couple days for all the blisters to blow out, and I kept some aloe based lotion on it for about a week. Only took off a couple layers of skin and didnt get down too deep into the meat. But Ive got a really wierd mottled tan on that wrist and hand now. All the burned area is fishbelly white running through my tan
Shrug...hell you know me...I tend to not let that sort of minor thing slow me down.
That left kne scabbed over..and of course I had to do a lot of kneeling and it kept breaking open and leaking blood and lymph fluid all down my leg for a week. Had to keep a bottle of alcohol and a clean rag handy to clean up the mess it was making. Ive been wearing shorts for the most part because of that.
Last of the scab came off tonight in the bathtub, gonna make an interesting scar for a year or two.
I hope the pigment comes back on my wrist and hand. Looks wierd
Gunner
Gunner
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