My sister-in-laws, my mom, and I got together yesterday afternoon to can pizza/tomato sauce using the tomatoes from Katy's garden. I helped out by chopping up the hot peppers. While I was chopping, they asked me if my hands were burning at all because normally theirs do if they didn't wear gloves. I told them that my hands didn't burn at all and that I had never heard of such a silly thing. Well...around 7:00pm last night (about 5 hours after I chopped the peppers), my hands started to feel a burning sensation. It kept getting worse....so bad that I couldn't even take them out of cold water for a minute. It felt like I stuck my hands in a firepit! I tried all of the solutions listed on the internet that I could think of (apparently this is a frequent problem with peppers), but nothing worked. I finally tried to go to sleep on the couch (so I wouldn't bug Jer) with 2 bags of ice, one in each hand. Needless to say, it was a painful and sleepless night. They finally stopped burning around 4am. I wished I wasn't pregnant so that I could take some sort of medicine to knock myself out with. Oh well, I am feeling much better today. I just thought I would warn everyone....wear gloves!!! And Katy, Amber, and mom....next time around, someone else chops peppers!!!!
Michigan UP Black Bear Hunt
5 years ago
3 comments:
geeze, that sounds awful. As if you don't have enough things keeping you awake at night, ya have to deal with burning hand. Hopefully you get some rest tonight!
Oh man, I laughing hard over here. Not that its funny at all! Next time I'll be happy to chop the peppers if you do the onions so I don't cry.
I have never heard of that before, no fun!
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