Dexterity 3, or Soup 1, Redbird 0

I made myself a late lunch--vegetable soup, bread and butter, orange juice, simple and nourishing, suited for a person with a cold.

Sat down, reached for the soup spoon--and knocked half a bowl of soup over, onto the table, me, and the floor behind me. Aaack! Dashed into the bathroom and ran cold water over my right leg for a while, then switched to an ice pack.

Casual (semi)nudity has its drawbacks--denim would have been some protection for my skin.

It was good soup, though.

Dexterity 3, or Soup 1, Redbird 0

I made myself a late lunch--vegetable soup, bread and butter, orange juice, simple and nourishing, suited for a person with a cold.

Sat down, reached for the soup spoon--and knocked half a bowl of soup over, onto the table, me, and the floor behind me. Aaack! Dashed into the bathroom and ran cold water over my right leg for a while, then switched to an ice pack.

Casual (semi)nudity has its drawbacks--denim would have been some protection for my skin.

It was good soup, though.

burn (follow-up)

I poked around the Web--refdesk.com took me to Medline and the Mayo Clinic--and then my medicine cabinet, and have applied an aloe vera sunburn gel to my leg, with some hesitation: the packaging said not to use if there was blistering, but the Mayo Clinic specifically suggests aloe vera gel for this situation. Since the product is marketed/labeled for sunburns, I suspect that the message is "if your sunburn is bad enough to blister, seek medical help".

The blister is small, and I really don't want to deal with an emergency room on a Sunday night. Depending on what cattitude says when he says this, on how I feel by morning, and on any comments I get, I may go to my doctor tomorrow. I've also taken two aspirin.

burn (follow-up)

I poked around the Web--refdesk.com took me to Medline and the Mayo Clinic--and then my medicine cabinet, and have applied an aloe vera sunburn gel to my leg, with some hesitation: the packaging said not to use if there was blistering, but the Mayo Clinic specifically suggests aloe vera gel for this situation. Since the product is marketed/labeled for sunburns, I suspect that the message is "if your sunburn is bad enough to blister, seek medical help".

The blister is small, and I really don't want to deal with an emergency room on a Sunday night. Depending on what cattitude says when he says this, on how I feel by morning, and on any comments I get, I may go to my doctor tomorrow. I've also taken two aspirin.