At some point, an amber from a cigarette or one of the lit fireworks fell on the back seat of the car and ignited several other explosives.
An amber "what" from a cigarette fell?
Posted on 06/29/2004 12:33:04 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29
It was years ago. She was 18 months old, and very very quick... I was coming out of the kitchen, which we had gated, and somehow she went by me, moving at what seemed like a million miles an hour. Just as I grabbed her, she pulled a pot of grease off the stove. The handle was turned in like it was supposed to be, but she just grabbed the lip of the pot...
It could have been a lot worse, but she still ended up with 3rd degree burns on her chest, shoulder, and behind her ear...
She had some grafts, and has pretty much healed. 13 Years old now... and still too damned quick...
Probably the worst part of being in the Burn Ward was watching some poor girl who had been left home alone, while mom went out drinking, and the house started on fire.
In the two months or so we were there, mom didn't ome to visit once. Her grandmother did, but her mom couldn't be pried away to come see her even though the hospital gave the woman a place to stay practically next door...
I swear I wanted to kill that woman.
Don't know that for a fact. Just making assumptions based on past exper ....er..stories I've heard.
My post you quoted was a direct reply to another post discussing burn pain. Go back and re-read it.
Are my husband and his male relatives the only ones who flick their ashes out the window, completely unmindful of the fact that they just blow right back into the back seat?
WOW, what a horror for your family but it looks all is well now. My son was a healthy preemie and we had to hang in that ward for a few weeks(3) until my son was big enough... I felt such sorrow for the other families who had sick children while my son was fine. He was born at 3. 6 lbs then shrunk a bit and came home at 4.2 because he was so healthy and I will never forget the sick children we left behind... : ( some where around 1.5 lbs : (( just a difficult situation that you leave asap and pray for the rest : (
Just great docs a great ward, great nurses and great parents all around. Something I will never forget ever.
To Stupid To Live.
Nurses that specialize in burns are a special kind of nurse...like a pediatric nurse.
I'm not one of either. I just couldn't stand it, I don't think...my heart would just break.
Head trauma rehab was my thing.
Good Lord, that's just as demanding... I couldn't do that, I don't have the patience, nor could I help them deal with the frustration.
My mother is a cardiac nurse. Even that is frustrating... Like catching a patient sneaking a smoke in the stairwell, days after their Nth heart attack...
you originally stated:
With burns over 90% of their bodies, they are dead men.
The reply said:
Holy cats! Missed that on the first read. Man, what a horrible way to go. THE most painful possible way to die is burns.
You then replied:
Actually, 3º burns are essentially painless--the nerve endings are affected. 1º and 2º are painful.
The article never addressed the degree rating of the burns. So one of two things is true:
If they suffered only first and second degree burns over 90% of their body, then they are in a lot of pain, as Lazmataz suggested.
If they suffered third degree burns, then they are not in pain, but are soon to meet their maker, as you stated.
I would logically guess that they suffered all three levels of burns, are in a lot of pain and will soon be dead.
At some point, an amber from a cigarette or one of the lit fireworks fell on the back seat of the car and ignited several other explosives.
An amber "what" from a cigarette fell?
I know what you mean about 'em being quick...my eldest son when he was about 18 months old, was sitting on my husband's lap at Schlotzky's Sandwich shop in Tyler Texas. Hubby had a bowl of cheese soup on the tray pushed back to the back of the table so my son couldn't reach it.
With both of us sitting there, by son shot his hand out, grabbed the tray, pulled it toward him and with the other hand stuck it in the soup!
I jerked his hand out (this all happened in an instant, I'm sure you can imagine what I mean) and instantly stuck his hand in my mouth. It was like a reflex. The cheesy soup on his fingers BLISTERED my tongue and the inside of my cheek. My husband, all in the same instant, jerked his hand out of my mouth and stuck it in his ice cold coke!
His hand just blistered up. I was sick. We left our food and went straight to his pediatrician. Praise God, they were just surface blisters. We had to put Silvadene cream on his hand for a while and wrap it, but he didn't have any deep scarring.
The speed at which all that happened is still something hard to explain.
Until one of the men died, they were both in critical condition. Now take a wild guess how serious the burns are.
Perhaps an "amber" is what falls from a New York style "Fire Safe " cigarette?
Explosion sends two gas company workers to hospital
6-29-04
By Cynthia Jeffries, Staff Writer
Updated 4:05 p.m.
EDEN - Two Carolina Propane employees were taken to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem today after a hot water heater they were working on blew up.
Johnny Porter, 61, of Eden and Kevin Emmerson, 34, of Yancyville had just filled a gas tank at Shriley’s Biggs’ home at 145 Tate Vernon Place.
Biggs, 72, said she ran out of gas on Monday and called Carolina Propane early Tuesday to have her tank filled. Biggs had just walked outside to hang a load of laundry on her clothes line when the explosion occurred about 9:15 a.m.
The explosion shook the two-bedroom, one bath, one-story house off its foundation and tore off an entrance way from the back of Biggs’ home. The blast was heard several miles away, said Robert Cardwell, a Rockingham County deputy fire marshal.
Biggs was not injured in the blast. “I just thank the lord she didn’t get hurt,” said Biggs’ son-in-law Tony Powell.
The conditions of Porter and Emmerson were not available.
Some geniuses were doing this the other day in a car in front of me while they were driving -- both the driver and the passenger! I didn't know what they were doing at first and it was a pretty loud bang.
Oh dear. Well, I am so glad she is ok and thank you for sharing. I too have a little toddler and stuff like that scares the bejeebus out of me. When you have children its like you have to constantly be on the offensive.
Oh, It's just a couple of nitwits in Florida, probably a couple of the ones confused over the butterfly ballot, no doubt.
Probably an "amber" typo.
"Ember" maybe?
No doubt, just picking on our literate journalists.
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