I feel like shit.

Mom burned herself *really* badly opening a pressure cooker while it still had pressure in it. She's about 10% burned, with 4% at 2nd degree. The worst one is on her left thumb.

When I came home from work, it really didn't look that bad. I didn't think the hospital would be able to do anything for her.

But now I'm wondering if we totally made the wrong decision, especially considering her thumb. I've learned a lot over the last few days since it happened, and I'm kicking myself all over the place and back. I knew that hand burns were considered critical, but I had no idea, no idea at all that it was *that* bad.

I'm a lousy EMT.

But I'm learning - its just too bad that I had to learn on my mother.

Ugh.
Petunia