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Amazing ....that is a tribute to what a positive attitude and a survivor 
can do. Focusing on the good makes a huge difference. Thanks for reminding me. Maybe you should consider a manuscript for at least a short story about your experience there. It sounds highly inspirational and like something you would just have to finish reading.
posted by
mariss9
on April 17, 2010 at 9:43 PM
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Your a strong woman... so horrific for you to endure and yet you had concern for others and were there for them too.
posted by
yellowrose55
on April 10, 2010 at 5:12 PM
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I have a couple of friends that found themselves in a burn unit. One was blown off a very large tank while working for a petroleum company. The other sucked fire down his throat when something unknowingly made it's way into a bonfire. Between welding and my last job working with equiptment and material heated over 400 degrees, I can only imagine the pain of my burns multiplied. You are still here... And that's wonderful.
posted by
MadelynHoudini
on April 10, 2010 at 9:06 AM
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This is such a chilling experience, you can post it again and again. I'm only glad you made it.
posted by
vogue
on April 9, 2010 at 10:30 PM
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How did you get burned so bad? I'm glad you made it. I am also having trouble taking time to read blogs. Thanks for reading mine recently. Have a nice evening.
posted by
mariposa75
on April 9, 2010 at 8:42 PM
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I remember when you posted this. About a year later the post remains so powerful.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on April 9, 2010 at 6:39 PM
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hazel
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on April 9, 2010 at 8:04 AM
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have you tried rebooting the computer or reinstalling windows?
posted by
Lanetay
on April 9, 2010 at 8:03 AM
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it's funny how the worst of situations can spawn the best relationships
almost as if we compensate for our surroundings by forming much more meaningful connections...
posted by
lionreign
on April 9, 2010 at 6:35 AM
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I'm so glad this is behind you now.
I feel so sorry for those little children whose parents are so cruel. Watching a thing on Court TV about a man and his wife being tried for murder. Their mentally challenged 16-year-old daughter was chained to her bed, and died when the house burned. I think there's a special corner of hell reserved for people who damage children.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 9, 2010 at 5:28 AM
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It7s true, you do have a postive attitude and
soothing way of speaking. Good for you Chris. You should have been a hospital clown. Now don't get me wrong, that is a compliment. Hospital clowns are in New Zealand hospitals to cheer up the ill (apparently many US hospitals have them also). The Robin Williams movie "Patch Adams" made the public more aware of these "angels" in hospitals. great post, girl.
posted by
Hackthorne19
on April 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM
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This whole thing you went through just breaks my heart! I can truly feel your pain and loss! Not like you, but I understand pain! Love you Sweetie!!!! sammie
xoxoxoxo
posted by
sam444
on April 8, 2010 at 11:02 PM
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Glad you reposted this, I had missed it. xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on April 8, 2010 at 9:11 PM
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Re: Cricket
Thank you, Wiley and Kabu. oxox
posted by
hazel_st_cricket
on April 8, 2010 at 7:52 PM
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Re: Cricket, I too have endured 3rd degree burns (leg) acid baths, skin grafts
Damn, Guy... well..I definately know what severe burns feel like..
posted by
hazel_st_cricket
on April 8, 2010 at 7:52 PM
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Re: Hazel
Sorry, Naut. I should've reposted about the house fire I was in first...then this one.
In 1985 I almost died in a house fire, getting my kids out, then the people who lived upstairs. I was in bad shape, but the doctors told me I was a miracle. I healed up so well, that they only had to graft my right hand. They thought I would be blind and a "monster"
I am very lucky and grateful.
posted by
hazel_st_cricket
on April 8, 2010 at 7:51 PM
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Hazel
Even if this post is kind of funny - I must have missed something somewhere (not surprising; it happens a lot to me, LOL), but I had no idea that you were badly burnt! I do hope you have fully recovered...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 8, 2010 at 7:40 PM
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Cricket, I too have endured 3rd degree burns (leg) acid baths, skin grafts
I have two wierd looking, foot long, three inch wide, patches of whale-belly white colored skin on my right thigh, where donor skin was taken, then stitched over the newly granulated meat on my lower right leg, (HUNDREDS of stitches!) above my ankle, where my sock stopped gasoline from traveling further downward. I was hospitalized for nine weeks. I think that unless one has been through such a memorable experience, it would be like trying to imagine what it would be like, to experience a migraine cluster-headache, a broken leg, and an impacted and infected toothache, all at the same time. One may think that they can guess what it would be like, but they really have NO CLUE, because they have never had any of these experiences. Good posting, my friend. Been there, done that, skipped buying the tee shirt, though.
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on April 8, 2010 at 7:00 PM
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Cricket
You're an amazing human being, God Bless you and have a happy weekend luv
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 8, 2010 at 6:17 PM
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I don't remember reading this how awfulforyou and it would be you who would
be the brave helpful one.
posted by
Kabu
on April 8, 2010 at 6:13 PM
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