burns hurt

last night i unknowingly picked up a hot pan and burnt my hand badly. for awhile there it looked as if a layer of skin was going to fall off, but then it blistereed instead. i have a blister on my left index finger all the way down, across the webbing between the finger and thumb and up the side of my thumb. it hurts worse than my ruptured gallbladder did and i'm taking it easy trying to do everything right handed or not at all. i've promised not to drive and to watch the blister like a hawk so that if it starts to become sour, i can get treatment. because of this, my typing has worsened (hard to do it with one hand) and the only thing i'm really good for is reading and sitting on the couch. in lieu of running (i can't hold onto the elliptical) i took mandolin on an hour long walk in the cemeteries. we had good fun looking at names and dates and i had to explain to her that we shouldn't jump on stones and we need to leave the rocks on the jewish graves alone. i told her to say "amen" and put the rock back when she took one. when we walked through the greek orthodox cemetery, she picked rocks and pinecones off the train and decorated various graves with hearty "OH MAN'S!" (that's how she says amen).