Twice burnt...
27 November 2023 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeApparently I've managed to burn my leg on my hot-water-bottle again. At least there is no blister this time, just a painful red patch, but I suppose I shall have to abstain from bathing for some time, since that turned out to be the fatal mistake previously :(
I can only conclude that it happens because I clench myself so tightly around the bottle in bed!
When I tried to change the batteries on my wall-mounted light I discovered that those had gone rotten as well (explaining why the light had stopped working!), and in fact there was liquid and not just crystals in the bottom of the battery box. Possibly not actual battery acid, because it didn't burn me when I handled the batteries, but I really cannot see why I would be getting condensation on the corridor wall. Because it's next to an unheated room? But I've never noticed the wall itself being damp...
Fatalistically I applied the same lemon juice treatment to the battery light as I did to the clock, and didn't even attempt to clean off the residue afterwards, and oddly enough it didn't seem to cause any problems at all. I must say the (LED) light is incredibly bright with new batteries in it -- it wasn't much more than a nightlight glow before, but then it did get left on all night on a couple of occasions by mistake...
I can only conclude that it happens because I clench myself so tightly around the bottle in bed!
When I tried to change the batteries on my wall-mounted light I discovered that those had gone rotten as well (explaining why the light had stopped working!), and in fact there was liquid and not just crystals in the bottom of the battery box. Possibly not actual battery acid, because it didn't burn me when I handled the batteries, but I really cannot see why I would be getting condensation on the corridor wall. Because it's next to an unheated room? But I've never noticed the wall itself being damp...
Fatalistically I applied the same lemon juice treatment to the battery light as I did to the clock, and didn't even attempt to clean off the residue afterwards, and oddly enough it didn't seem to cause any problems at all. I must say the (LED) light is incredibly bright with new batteries in it -- it wasn't much more than a nightlight glow before, but then it did get left on all night on a couple of occasions by mistake...
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Date: 2023-11-27 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-11-29 06:44 pm (UTC)I kept the area covered with gauze for a couple of days, and there was only a single red mark left this morning when I ventured upon a much-needed bath (somewhat nervously as this was what introduced the infection last time). But it wasn't such a bad burn and hadn't blistered, and the mark appears to have shrunk in the hours since rather than getting worse :-)
It is a very odd way of getting injured, though!