Youch!!! that hurts

[TorontoBoy]

Looking on the bright side, you won't have to shave that part of your leg ever again.

Yea, that looks ANGRY. Check your burn skin temperature often. If it feels warmer than the other leg, same place, then you've got an infection going. If you think it's growing, draw a pen mark on the outline of the red border, and in a day if it goes beyond the border it's growing.

There's not much to do but grimace, wash with soap and water, change dressing daily, add Polysporin and wait. In a couple of days, if you can safely do it, at night when you sleep it might be helpful to remove the dressing and air it out, provided it is not weeping and you don't reopen the wound through unconscious scratching/abrasion from bed. Eventually it will scab over. There's a theory that not getting the wound soaking wet (like having a shower) will aid healing, allowing the skin a more normal recovery period. I'm not a doc, but I think the whitish skin within and to the periphery of the angry area is dead and will eventually fall off.

This wound should not prevent you from riding. Properly cover it, you could even put a physical barrier (like a cut down piece of plastic cup) on top to prevent anything pressing on it. Bandage it up and get on with your ride. The ride will do you good.

I'd rather the wife be mad at me. The dog house only lasts a couple of days, a week max. This think will be fine in 6 months.

[RandalSeeler]

That looks rough. Did it take you a minute to pull your leg from the metal, or did you jump immediately? Good thing that didn't happen when you were moving.

Rand

[buggsy]

Iforget the name of the stuff but they sell it in the drug store. ask the pharmacist because if that is 5 days old you need something on it. Its a invisable skin and it stays on for 7 days and heals underneath it. Its great stuff we use it all the time in the nursing home i work at.
good luck and hope it heals fast.

[jonnythan]

The 2nd Skin burn stuff is great. I'd recommend picking some up.

As for "letting it air out," that's BS. That's one of those "sounds like a good idea to me" things that your grandmother used to do. Don't let it dry out. It's bad for healing and good for getting infected and hurting more.

Keep it clean, keep it dressed, keep it moisturized with Neosporin or some sort of burn cream. That is the one thing a doctor *would* do - give you a prescription burn cream. Not necessary, but, I'm not a doctor so don't listen to me

I'm not overly experienced with large burns, but what I see in the pic pretty much conforms to what I have seen of a properly healing burn.

[Kaiser Soze]

Jesus. Didn't you, like, immediately pull your leg away?

Looks like you went "OWWWW OH MY GOD!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!", looked for a good place to pull over and get the kickstand out, and peeled your leg off the hot bit.

My god.

[hdkidder]

Burn is almost fully healed now. Got a pretty Pink patch of skin now. Have been keeping Neosporin and Gauze pads on it. After the first week I started letting it "air" for a few hours and then applied Neosporin'd it and redressed it. Did that twice a day for 10 days so far and it is looking a lot better("Pretty Pink patch of skin").

I wasn't clear on the order of events, so here goes:

1. Wife took S50 out for 12miles first ride (30+ minutes).
2. Wife parked S50 in the street in front of the house and said "I'm done. I don't want to ride it up the driveway and put it away. and you do it?"
3. I said "well if I'm gonna put it away I might as well take it for a quick spin" and grabbed my helmet. Not even thinking that I was wearing sneakers and shorts.
4. I got on the S50, fire it up, went to take off, stalled it and let it roll on to its left side. Sometime during this I got the initial sting and didn't think anything of it.
5. I picked up the S50, fire it up again and took off to do 1 lap thru the neighborhood (1/2 mile at 25mph with 5 stop signs, takes 5 minutes on average).
6. At 1st stop sign, the stinging gets noticeable.
7. By 3rd stop sign, I the stinging is constant and extremely aggravating.
8. Stopped and chatted with Poker Buddy for a couple minutes while the engine is running (however feet & legs are away from engine).
9. Back in the loop, at the 4th Stop Sign recognize that the stinging ain't going away and hurts like hell.
10. Run the 5th stop sign, turning right, ride the S50 up the hill/driveway and park it in the garage.
11. Shut down the S50, take off my helmet and finally look at the stinging area on my leg. Nice sized patch of Pure White flesh with red spots throughout, with 1/2" band of grey/black shrivelled-up skin and blisters surrounding patch, surrounding that was 1" band of "Hot" Red area.

Looking back now, I know that I was a total F-*-ing idiot for:
1. Wearing shorts and sneakers on a bike
2. Dropping the S50 in the first place from a dead stop/stall, had the front wheel turn fully and I let the clutch out to fast.
3. Not putting the bike away immediately, instead of going for a ride
4. Not making my wife put the S50 in the garage herself

I had the S50 out this weekend again and could easily feel the heat from the engine in the burn area, which caused more stinging. Yes, I was wearing jeans this time. Put 24 miles on it and REALLY enjoyed that ride, even tho I ALMOST got hit by a SUV, who cut his turn too short, while I was stopping at stop sign.