Canning

Fall harvest; what a wonderful time. I’ve been canning peaches, pears, fruit cocktail, and more recently apple pie filling. All the fresh fruit is wonderful!

So, last night I was up pretty late canning some apple pie filling. My counters and table are overrun with everything. I didn’t have much workspace so I was just winging it, doing my best to make things fit. That mindset led to stupidity. I spilled (more like poured) boiling hot pie filling sauce on my hand…

Warning: nasty looking pictures below. If you have a weak stomach you may not want to read this post…

I spent the next 5-10 minutes with my hand under cold water while Brad held ice cubes on the burn. I still had a bunch of apples and sauce to use up. I ended up balancing an ice cube on my hand while slicing, peeling, and coring more apples and pouring sauce into the bottles. I kept it iced for a good two hours. It still burned. I put some Melaleuca oil on it and the pain went away. Amazing! I woke up this morning and my hand just had a red ring with white in the middle.

By the afternoon it started too look like this:

Gross but manageable. Later I had to do the dishes, then we went to see Cars 2. Aaron kept grabbing my hand, leaning on it, etc. This is what it looks like now:

It still burns, but it could be worse. I keep bumping it on all sorts of stuff. The Melaleuca oil helps but it won’t stay on very long. I’m keeping a bandaid on but that doesn’t seem to help either. I’m afraid of popping it because I don’t want it to get infected… Hopefully it goes down soon.