Not To Be Trusted With Irons
So the other day I decided that I probably should do some ironing, given that I had a tonne of wrinkly clothes hanging in my closet that weren’t getting unwrinkly on their own. Now, I don’t have a very good track record with ironing. The last time I attempted it, I broke my coffee table’s glass top and it cost me $130 to replace it. Long story short – I assumed the glass table top was made of tempered glass, but, as it turns out, it was not. So when I put a towel down on the table and started ironing, I very soon heard a loud crack and the table top was cracked into several pieces. To add insult to injury, it cost nearly as much to replace the table top ($130) as it had to buy the whole table ($150)! At least I know that this new table top is tempered glass, though I definitely won’t be ironing on it! I have since purchased a small ironing board, so I was confident that I could pull off this feat of domestic achievement without incident. Spoiler alert: I could not.
I managed to get most of the ironing done, but then I reached across the grab something and accidentally touched my arm to the iron. For the record, this is not something I recommend that you do. You know, in case you were thinking of trying it. This is what my arm looked like right after the incident – well, right after I’d spent some time running cold water over it:
I thought I saw a blister starting to form (you can’t really see it in the above photo), but it was really just the actual burn I was seeing – the red splotchiness surrounding it went away by the next day, revealing the spot where I’d touched flesh to burning hot steel. This is what it looked like on the 3rd day post-burn:
The office I work in has a bunch of physicians in it, so I asked one of them for their expert medical opinion: “This looks like it’s healing OK, right?” He concurred with my diagnosis, so I’m two-for-two on diagnosing my self-inflicting (but accidental) injuries.
Just to add insult to injury, however, earlier this evening I was playing with Watson and he accidentally scratched me. On the arm. Right on the burnt part of my arm. You can actually see the scratch mark on the bottom left side of the burn:
It hurt like a mofo.
In related news, does anyone have advice on how to clip cat nails ((Or know any single guys that really love to iron?))?
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Tags: burn, cats, ironing, stupid injury, things I'm not to be trusted with
You can buy cat clippers at a pet store, but you really need 2 people to clip cat nails. One person to hold the cat and the other person to clip. Your arm looks really painful and I hope it heals quickly.
My advice for one person cat claw clipping is to wait until the cat is nice and relaxed in your lap, then clip one or two claws only before putting the clippers far away from you so they know they can relax again (unless they’re in a totally zen state and will let you do more without any protest whatsoever, which has happened to me precisely once). Do the next two claws a couple of days later – the hard part is remembering which claws you’ve already done on which cat! Much better, less stressful for everyone, and less scratchy than trying to do it all at once.
Sounds like I might need a spreadsheet to keep track! (I really can turn anything into a spreadsheet opportunity!)