TIFU by giving myself a freeze burn.

Submitted by 7ThunderCloud t3_zzsuja in tifu

Yesterday I went and saw a titanic exhibition all about the sinking of the titanic. It was pretty interesting. At one point they had a chilled box in a model iceberg. The idea was that you’d put your hand in to see how cold the water was the night the titanic sank. The sign said to see how long you could last. So I lasted 4 minutes in -30 degree temperature. In fact I only stopped because some kid wanted a turn. My hand was kind of numb afterwards and I went about my day. Cut to 3:30 AM 36 hours later and I wake up in immense pain as my hand feels like it’s on fire. There’s purpleish blisters where the hand was most pressed on the ice. I’m currently typing this at 4 AM with one hand. Oh god it hurts so much

TLDR: I was a dumbass and voluntarily burned my hand.

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kappsylen t1_j2djctq wrote

They allow kids to do this? Unsupervised? It feels like an accident bound to happen.

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breaktime1 t1_j2dd2ok wrote

Damn imagine being in that water tho. Your whole body would be fucked.

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AcrobaticSource3 t1_j2fc7jq wrote

Yes, but OP would be warmed by the fact that his girlfriend’s heart will go on

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Bubbagumpredditor t1_j2dhyax wrote

I doubt it was -30, but even putting your hand in water a couple of degrees below the freezing point for an extended period can do damage. Might wanna get it checked out, hopefully it's just surface frostbite burns.

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kappsylen t1_j2diz2z wrote

>How cold is the water in the Titanic Museum? -28

If that's in F, then I guess it's even colder than -30 C.

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7ThunderCloud OP t1_j2ejo7o wrote

It probably wasn't. The sign says it was -30 but it was pretty ventilated so I doubt it was actually -30. But yeah, it looks like just surface wounds.

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Bubbagumpredditor t1_j2el2vb wrote

I looked it up, it was 27 to 30 farenheight, that's probably what they meant

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7ThunderCloud OP t1_j2ejxsv wrote

Update: It hasn't gotten any worse, but rubbing stuff still hurts it, (don't take that out of context) the skin is less puffy and blistery and more just dark and purpleish now. It was also my dominant hand, so I'm gonna have to cut back on the gaming for a while which is probably for the best.

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