It was proving to be a great 4th of July as we had a lot of fun at the river. Later that night came the fireworks and Kevin and I had a firsthand experience of what to do when a firework unexpectedly explodes in your hand. Here are the steps:
1. Hold fountain firework in hand while it emits sparks.
2. When firework unexpectedly explodes with ground flowers into hand, drop firework and immediately run burnt hand under cold water.
3. Put ice on hand and head over to watch big fireworks in the sky. Wait 5 minutes until extreme pain sets in.
4. Hurry home and think of home remedies aka put in cold water (only thing that made it feel better- I also tried burn gel and a gauze wrap as directed online but he was in so much pain that he ripped it off less than 5 minutes later.)
5. Wait until injured party realizes that the pain is too extreme and agrees to be taken to the E.R. take picture of injured hand and relax in the E.R.
6. Doctor says the hand has 2nd and 1st degree burns, receive prescription for hefty pain-killer and allow hand to be lightly covered in neosporin and wrapped in gauze roll.
7. Go home, let pain-killer/narcotic set in and sleep. Wake up next day and take one more picture of hand.
8. Take E.R. doctors advice, "Next year you won't buy fireworks because they're all made in China and they are all crap. Just crap. Fireworks are worthless and terribly made." Haha.
9. Laugh about it. :) And try not to burn hand (or any body part) with fireworks next year because it hurts!
What a great 4th of July :) Happy Birthday America!!
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