Jay Leno recovering from serious burns

[pekingduck]

Very sad to hear what happened to Jay Leno this week. There's no nicer guy and fellow enthusiast than he.

We wish him a speedy recovery.

[GoldOxide_imp]

Last I read he is actively downplaying the event.

I reckon he has a story to twist into something enlightening for his audience.

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

Wishing Jay the best.

[Gone in 60]

Hope he's better by the end of the year. He always shows up at a big show before New Year's Eve with the most unusual car anyone has ever seen.

[GoldOxide_imp]

In the everyday future, it will be about battery chemical burns or explosions.

[Nachodaddy]

Sorry this is so long.
While we are on the subject of burn injuries, back in the '50s when I first became an Air Force Medic, acetone was everywhere in the hospital and barracks. Very popular for removing that old adhesive tape we used for bandages. This is not to say Jay's injuries were due to acetone, just that so many of us use it and store it like it is harmless.
My first assignment was to take a young airman to the whirlpool each day to stretch his burn scars as they healed. He was cleaning paint off the barracks basement floor with acetone when the washing machine changed cycles and the explosion blew him halfway up the stairs. Burned his tee-shirt into his back and his arms, hands and feet (he was wearing flip-flops with his pants rolled up) looked like pizza.
About ten years later, when I was working in Miami, FL, a nurse tossed a small acetone-laden cotton ball into a toilet in a patient's room. A few minutes later his visitor tossed his cigar into the same toilet and the resulting explosion resulted in 1) a very expensive law-suit and 2) our hospital banned the use of acetone for any reason.
I have been very, very careful with acetone ever since. I hope you will, too. Gasoline also deserves no less respect.
Jay's burns will take awhile to heal and can't be covered with make-up, so he won't be making any public appearances for at least a month, I'd guess.
I wish him a fast and painless recovery.

[Gone in 60]

I think you're right, m in c. He's a car guy when it comes down to it. Anyone who is has battle scars. Some of mine are very non-heroic, like a bent finger from a spring compressor that failed while I was working on a Camry. Not a Ferrari... a Camry. A scarred foot from a collapsed nosewheel on a go kart trailer. Not a race car transporter... a go kart trailer.

[ymtnpoah11_imp]

Ouch. Severe burns are life changing.
(And isn't there something about that extra sting of injuring oneself doing things we love)
Cheers to his health and yours.

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

Ouch. Severe burns are life changing.
(And isn't there something about that extra sting of injuring oneself doing things we love)
Cheers to his health and yours.

Life changing is right! Tired of the hurts and injuries, mostly burns, that come with working as a fabricator, I changed careers. I had some serious burns, malfunctioning brazing torches, gobs of molten metal in my boot, all kind of stuff made me get out of that and go into technical writing, a field I had an aptitude and the education for, and paid much better, too.