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[Ian Fritz]

At 01:56 PM 1/1/06, Aaron Lanterman wrote:

>Speaking of which, I nailed myself with a soldering iron for the first 
>time a couple of weeks ago while putting together my MOTM 485...
>
>I simply did something stupid - I did something that you really needed 
>three hands for, which I should know better than to try with only two 
>hands - I was holding the soldering iron in my right hand, and holding a 
>pot onto the board with my thumb and index finger on my left hand, and 
>holding the solder with the other fingers on my left hand.
>
>I slipped, got a good inch of the iron across the top of my hand by my 
>thumb. Felt like an idiot, I have no idea what possessed me to try that.
>
>Immediately went and ran cold water over it for a while. It didn't 
>actually look to bad at first - just some flakey white, and didn't hurt 
>much if at all - I mostly couldn't feel it. Maybe the heat obliterated all 
>the nerves or something.
>
>Then the next day came, and then the next day. The nerves apparently 
>started growing back and then I saw how deep the heat had gotten in such a 
>short amount of time...
>
>EWWWWW. OWWWWW.

When that happens, put ice directly on it -- immediately.  (Not that I have 
ever had that happen to me, of course, just something I happen to know.)

   Ian