I have been in really low place these last few days.
I work in a place that prepares ready meals and suchlike, as I posted about the other week. The other day I was in the canteen at the same time as one of the porters who was deep cleaning the walls. He was using a cleaning chemical, one of several that are used in the place, all for various reasons and of various strengths. Said porter splashed the chemical rather too liberally and soaked my arm in it. I immediately washed it off and whilst my arm was bright red and itching afterwards I thought it was more or less ok.
I was wrong.
Maybe 2 hours or so later I was in agony. My skin had bubbled up and gone a shocking red. The area affected is around my left elbow and part of the forearm. I slathered on the cream I have for my allergy but then didn’t help. I decided to take myself up to the hospital and after a 15 minute hike up the hill opposite me I was in A&E waiting to see a nurse.
In essence, I have, or had, a first degree chemical burn to the arm. That’s at the least serious end of the scale but the news for me that is worrying me, the stuff that’s got me down is that once the redness and all that fades, I am almost certainly going to be left with scarring over the affected area. I am not a shallow person and its not like the scars will be on my boat race but it does bother me somewhat.
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