Believe it or not we did a really long post on here not too long ago about burns. I wound up posting quite a
bit of stuff from the Red Cross website. You might want to search for that and look to them fo advice on long term treatment.
One of my favorite burns was from a
carbon arc Super Trouper. I was running spot for an outdoor
theatre in Oklahoma, and one of my cues was to
pick up a dancer called the "Raven Mocker" < a spirit from the Cherokee Mythos>. Well he would
preset himself on top of the mountain < yes the
theatre had a built in mountain> I would site in on him and just hit him with a head shot, neat trick considering he was a couple of hundred feet away wearing a dark feathered headress and cloak thingy < but Hey, I am
That good>
So one night, I think allegies were acting up, I was having a hard time seeing him to tell whether or not he was in place. I kept leaning forward to look under the
edge of my spot booth window, his
spike was almost
level with my spot posistion, he was that far over the
stage. All over a sudden Tsssssssssssssssss. That spot was so hot I didn't even notice I was burned till I heard the sizzle. There was a piece of welding glass on the outside
cover of the spot, so you could look in and check the carbons while it was arced up. I now have a nice rectangular scar just above my smallpox vaccination scar, it's about an inch and a half by three inches. Yes children, always wear long sleeves when running a
carbon arc.