Way to go grace…

I had a not so graceful moment yesterday afternoon.

I was cooking breakfast for dinner and decided to fry up some hash brown patties to go with the meal.

I was also cooking biscuits, gravy, bacon, sausage and shaped pancakes for the kids at the same time. I normally don’t have any problems cooking several things at once, (I call myself a master multi-tasker) but for some reason, it got the best of me last night. I let the pot of vegetable oil get too hot. I turned the heat down, but it wasn’t really cooling even after I turned the burner off. It was smoking up the kitchen and it was about to set the smoke alarms off, so I decided to take the pot to set it on the back porch before I set the kitchen on fire.

Jason had gotten home early and just walked in the door. I asked him to open the back door for me and I grabbed my oven mitts, picked up the pot of hot oil and headed out the door. I was going slow, but apparently wasn’t being careful enough. When I went to set the pot down, some of it sloshed out onto the top of my foot (I was wearing flip flops).

After about 1/2 an hour, I decided that since it was a large burn, maybe I should go to the doctor. (I was a little freaked out about it)  Jason loaded me and the kids up in the car and we drove to the urgent care clinic right up the road.

The dr diagnosed me with a superficial 2nd degree burn. They applied burn cream and wrapped it up for me. I was in quite a bit of pain. The dr offered me a morphine shot, but I figured I was tougher than that. I have given birth to 3 children after all--2 of them without an epidural :)

So, he gave me a prescription for some pain meds and antibiotics and told me to come back in a couple days to have it rechecked to make sure it’s healing ok.

I unwrapped it this morning and took these pics after I washed it.

It looks SO much better than it did last night. It was BRIGHT red/purple and already had several big blisters by the time I got to the dr. After having it wrapped up all night, it’s looking much better.

I have to wash it and rewrap it twice a day and take the antibiotics for the next 10 days.

Moral of the story: That’s what you get for cooking!

Not really—I’ve cooked THOUSANDS of meals and this is only the 2nd bad kitchen injury I’ve had. (I’ll have to tell you about the first sometime. It was right after we got married and I ended up with a pairing knife in the space between my thumb and index finger…)

Alternate moral of the story: That’s what I get for trying to feed my family something deep fried. I know better than that :)

I put it on facebook last night and asked for prayer and let me just tell you--- prayer works! I’m not feeling like I want to run a marathon, but I’m feeling so much better than I expected I’d feel today based on what the dr said. It’s likely going to hurt for several days and take a couple weeks to heal up. Thank yall for praying!!!