things to do when you can't leave the house because your face resembles overcooked pizza

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so, i just got out of hospital after an accident at work on monday involving very hot soup and a freshly mopped floor. I have hideous-looking burns all over my face and an inability to open my mouth wider than two centimetres, which means my usual strategy of sitting around eating is not going to cut it.

anyone got any ideas of how to fill time? I can't really leave the house for two weeks or so. I guess i could watch films, but I can't go out to get them, and I don't to watch any romantic comedies or anything involving pretty women while my face looks like this. The doctors say it'll heal but it's still really scary and I already started crying while reading vogue because of the perfect skin on the models. which was quite embarrassing in an open ward. can anyone recommend any good computer games (for pc) i can order through amazon? any good books or time-consuming activities? (i vaguely remember doing crafty projects when I was little and it was raining, stuff like making a castle out of old toilet rolls. i don't think that's going to cut it now but any vaguely pointless and soothing crafty activities would be great)

also has anyone had fairly bad burns before? I have no idea what to expect and the nurses were incredibly vague.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

That's awful. Very sorry.

― Skottie, Friday, 30 April 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry about your injuries... but we've got the perfect time-wasting device right here. It's called ILX. You have no fear of boredom for as long as you stay online! Fear of your ryde being pymped and your hair dyed and your chicken beared, but boredom? Never!

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I would loan you the first series of 24, if it were mine to lend and you hadn't already seen it and you had a DVD player and you lived close by.

it'd be nice, if the internet were more interesting, right? maybe get AOL instant messenger. it is a notorious time waster, isn't it?

it must suck, really, but I would love to have to spend two weeks inside, instead of just doing it.

best wishes!!!!!!!!

crossposts

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate's right! And after you've dyed your hair and it comes out all wrong, we can tell you how to do it over again for endless hours of educational fun. And do you like kittens????

― Skottie, Friday, 30 April 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(I was actually being serious for a change...)

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

No fair stepping out of character!

― Skottie, Friday, 30 April 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Seems like a really good time to read some books ...?

If you can get over the eye strain: www.netlibrary.com .. if you can't leave the house and don't have anything at home.

I hope you heal quickly and get your confidence back (and lose your self-consciousness...)

I'm sure ILXors will have a lot of great suggestions..

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

That's terrible Kathy, I'm sorry.

AIM, there are threads where people have posted their handles.

cross-stitch

jigsaw puzzles or paint by numbers

His Dark Materials.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

write a manifesto.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

get to know everyone on ILX and stalk your favourite until it feels like they are your friend even though they have no idea who you are.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Hope you recover well and quickly. Get yourself a big bumper crossword puzzle book and a deck of cards - teach yourself some new games. Learn to do the tarot cards.

― penelope_111, Friday, 30 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

oohh yeah, puzzle books!

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah I am hoping that ILX will provide me with many hours of entertainment! although i can't sit at the computer for too long without getting bored, maybe this is why my posting career here has never taken off.

the card game/tarot card idea is excellent, thanks penelope! the only problem is that i have bandages on one wrist but it seems to be healing okay, just makes some things a bit difficult to manipulate.

have MSN is that different to AIM? do they use the same network?

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Netflix!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

they are similar but there aren't as many people on MSN. (ILX0rs, anyway)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I Love Books

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

a bag of weed will cure boredom

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

some play literati with me

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks for the netlibrary link! it's excellent. hopefully I can persuade my sister/friends to do some shopping for me, although they all have jobs and so don't have much time to be my personal shoppers. the selfish bastards. i think reading will be a large component of my time at home. I managed to get through six books, four magazines and two newspapers in hospital already. although to be fair there was nothing else to do there beside look at myself in the mirror and weep, which tends to lose its sparkle after a while.

i forgot about tv, SPOOKY DERREN BROWN is on tonight, hooray!

(x-post)

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

make a list of people you are going to sue the shit out of

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Lego, if you have lego hanging around from when you were a kid, you could build an entire town or lunar base or what have you, or get someone to buy you some new lego.

hope the time goes quickly for you!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i will make a list of the various NO WIN NO FEE adverts i see on telly and rate them according to various criteria ie. quality of suits the pretend insurance men wear, memorability of phone number, humour content of accident shown (has anyone seen that one where the woman falls off the chair???)

actually i have no idea whether i can get any money out of this. i hope so. they aren't giving me sick pay. i'm not sure where to start.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

start with the person who mopped that floor and work your way up. was there a WET FLOOR sign? or a HOT SOUP sign?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

are you in the us or uk? if here, worker's comp.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"here" is unspecified, innit?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

no we were closing up. they were already closed up downstairs and all the lights were off. they mop the floor downstairs every night, and I carry the soup down most nights. i guess it was a really stupid thing to do but it all happened so fast.

(sam i'm in the uk)

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i tripped in my classroom ealier this year, my own clusminess. but they were all over me with incident reports, commands to visit dr. etc. It was all paid for and everything. they were terrified of me suing them. whatever.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

get well soon! take vitamin e supplements, it will help your skin heal without scarring. Don't be timid about getting a referral to a dermatologist if you haven't already.

As for timewasters, cross-stitch is good (as sam said) because you can stitch with one hand and hold the hoop with your injured wrist. They make nice presents and such. http://www.stitchaholics.com/ (UK)

Knitting might be too much for your wrist.

I have been wasting a lot of time with Age of Mythology: Titans Edition...I like games where you build a little village and then go stomp another village. An old game that I still find terribly amusing is Dungeon Keeper (and its sequel), where you build a little dungeon and take care of your beasties so that they may better slay wandering heroes. It's old so you could get it super cheap.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Vitamin e might in fact be a good suggestion .. but before you take any advice like that .. you really should ask your doctor. Based on the injuries, there may be a reason why a common remedy would not be a good idea in your case... So at least ask if vitamin e is OK to take... (or whatever else anyone suggests..) .. not trying to poo-poo teeny's advice or good intentions ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Once, when I was washing dishes at a restaurant, a man (a total dumbasshat, btw, who they were looking to fire, but had no reason to [until this happened]) put a plate which had been in the oven in the dirty dish bin, which I grabbed like a dumbass and got third-degree burns on all but one finger and one thumb (on opposite hands, what good luck I had).

I was home from work for about ten days. At the time I had no tv, only a box full of books (all of which by Tom Robbins or Kurt Vonnegut, all of which I had already read), guitars, and a drumkit, both musical instruments that I could not possibly play in my state.

I had my sister bring me a television and I just kinda got high (yay for push-button vaporizer) and watched PBS all day all ten of those days while clutching Otter Pops in my wounded grasp.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

(oh yeah, PBS = Public Broadcasting Station)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

You could have worked on your double bass drum skillz, Nick.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha

I miss that kit. It was a friggin ROGERS. Not mine, sadly.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

Go to this website and downlod Trillian; you will be able to talk to AIM people from your MSN handle.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i can never get trillian to run on my system. :(

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Trillian used to make my old, crappy computer crash a lot. But I loved it while it worked (and have feared it ever since).

(sorry for the hijack, but Dan, did you get my parcel?)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

(OMG I have been meaning to write you for days! YOU ARE A PRINCE AMONG MEN J0RDAN C0H3N, fancy a first-born, etc)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks nickalicious, it's comforting to know that i'm not alone in my stupidity. i mean i do this stuff EVERY DAY. even when i was falling down everything went all slo-mo and I was thinking 'this is so so so so stupid'.

the worst part is not being able to eat fast. my usual eating style is like 'hi mr plate, let me introduce you to mr face' 'hi mr. face, it's a pleasure to m....ARARGFGH DON'T EAT ME DON'T EAT ME' at the moment i have to cut everything into tiny tiny bits and kind of inhale it.

(x-post again)

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry the pain killers are making me light headed.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I just kinda got high (yay for push-button vaporizer)

nick, you officially rule. i have this one:

http://www.lightwell.net

but check these out:

http://www.flashevap.com

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god. i feel like a new world has been opened to me.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

lauren, you don't even know. it is life changing for sure. i've been using those "devices" since 1997.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

YOU ARE A PRINCE AMONG MEN J0RDAN C0H3N, fancy a first-born, etc)

Yep, that pretty much covers it, thx. :>

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

I got this thread on the randomiser, are you feeling better? What did you do for 2 weeks?

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 May 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I wondered about this, recently.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 15 May 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I never saw it before tonight, i was getting ready to offer helpful advice. Damn! :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Saturday, 15 May 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no. Gee this must be awful. The thing about hot water and steam burns is that they take about a week until you realise how bad they really are. (I dropped spaghetti on my feet once and another time yanked the basket out from a *still brewing* commercial coffee maker) Hope you're ok kathryn.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 15 May 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Well for two weeks I sat in the house and watched endless DVDs and read books. I'm utterly sick of sex and the city having seen about 20 episodes in one day. Also I baked a lot of brownies and biscuits and stuff.

thanks for the concern though! It's kind of gone down now but I still have big red patches all over my face so I feel really ugly and self-conscious about going outside. Apparently it's going to take maybe a year to fade completely :( I am completely fed up with sitting indoors but the other day I gave some money to a beggar and he tried to involve me in an in-depth conversation with the starting remark 'what's wrong with your face?'. Naturally I snatched my pound coin straight back.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and maybe the worst part is that a well-meaning friend made me a CD which ended with that bloke out of the mouldy peaches covering Kokomo. For two weeks now I have had Kokomo stuck in my head on an endless loop.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Saturday, 15 May 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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