11-17-2022, 03:22 AM
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.
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.