I have a friend that worked for a company that painted the lines in the roads. It's not paint they use, but thermoplastic. They melt big blocks of plastic to an extremely high temperature, and that's what they paint the roads with. Like a glue gun on major steroids. My friend went to pick up her paycheck, and was talking to a coworker in the front drive. There was a block of the plastic there, so her young daughter went to hop up on it. It was HOT. Someone had not put it in the cooler, where it should have been.
These blocks are heated to 392 degrees Fahrenheit, but they don't cool down immediately, and if the hot plastic touches the skin, it sticks, and continues to burn. My friend, and the coworker she was talking to, were furiously working to get it off the girl's skin, burning themselves in the process. Another worker saw what was happening, and grabbed a hose, while another one called an ambulance. By then, others had grabbed a freezing agent, to cool the plastic. All the while, my friend, and her coworker kept pulling the plastic off the child. The child, her mother, and the coworker sustained serious burns. The child being burned the worst.
While they all did a stint in the burn unit, the child spent months in there. Every day for a long time, they used stiff brushes on the burns, to scrub off the dead flesh, and the proud flesh. Even with topical anesthesia, and maximum dose morphine, the child screamed in pain when they did it. My friend complained about how bad it hurt, and her burns were not nearly as extensive as what her daughter suffered. Trust me when I say that had the option of painless maggots been available to them, they would have chosen them over the excruciatingly painful scrubbing. Pain that bad would make a pain free alternative more palatable.
These blocks are heated to 392 degrees Fahrenheit, but they don't cool down immediately, and if the hot plastic touches the skin, it sticks, and continues to burn. My friend, and the coworker she was talking to, were furiously working to get it off the girl's skin, burning themselves in the process. Another worker saw what was happening, and grabbed a hose, while another one called an ambulance. By then, others had grabbed a freezing agent, to cool the plastic. All the while, my friend, and her coworker kept pulling the plastic off the child. The child, her mother, and the coworker sustained serious burns. The child being burned the worst.
While they all did a stint in the burn unit, the child spent months in there. Every day for a long time, they used stiff brushes on the burns, to scrub off the dead flesh, and the proud flesh. Even with topical anesthesia, and maximum dose morphine, the child screamed in pain when they did it. My friend complained about how bad it hurt, and her burns were not nearly as extensive as what her daughter suffered. Trust me when I say that had the option of painless maggots been available to them, they would have chosen them over the excruciatingly painful scrubbing. Pain that bad would make a pain free alternative more palatable.
i will try to get a picture, they are super cute.
just can't wrap my mind around that. Leeches & maggots 
