Now you can see the damage

So we are keeping an eye on his thumb - well, at least he lets me check on it now and again. He still keeps it wrapped with ointment to make sure the skin stays soft. I'm glad it wasn't worse.

More thumb pictures

Can you see anything now?

Fortunately, it wasn't burned as badly as it could have been.

But it is still painful.

He keeps it wrapped with ointment to keep the skin from drying out.

Injury of sorts

The young men made potato "canons" at a campout last weekend.
Ben ended up not going so he was excited when they had them at the church tonight. After the young men activity, they went to the parking lot to try them out. It was sort of successful, and sort of not so much. I'm not sure of all the details but I guess they was flammable gas involved and Ben stuck his hand too far up and so his thumb was burned when the gas ignited. He decided what he needed was one of those goose neck Bic lighters so that he could bend it and stick the end into the canon and keep his hands away. At least some learning took place. We are hoping for a full recovery without any lasting issues.

 Bandaged up and ready to go to work.

Trying to get a look at it, but you can't really tell.

Owchie Oops

Ben was working on trimming some brush at the office, and he almost cut off part of his thumb. He was using a hand saw/bow saw instead of the clippers. I'm just gla it should heal up just fine.