Wow...that makes sense. It's not a long necklace, maybe about collar bone length (a drop, not a choaker, but still short) so I wondered how it did that. It's not the sort that is always dragging into things by any means, so yeah...I really didn't think about it.
I got lucky, the doc said, that I didn't have a higher neck shirt on, or else the fabric would caught fire or melted into the skin and have to be pulled out. That made me feel (a bit) better, because I was already thinking "how could I be so stupid to do something like that without more clothing on?" But I guess that part was alright. And I know I was lucky. Things could have been so much worse. I mean, we were putting the microwave into a wooden cabinet, so if that caught fire... Wow. I'd probably be allot more burnt, and maybe the house.... wow.
And no one else got hurt. And, unbelievably, the microwave still works.
The one problem (other than the skin burn) is that it is on top of where I had a metal box implanted in my chest. It's not a pacemaker, but it is a heart monitor, so that's the general idea. If that melted or anything, it will be a bigger problem. I'm skinney enough that you can see the outline of the box, and it is still the proper shape, so it's probably not destroyed or anything, but I need to find out if it is still working. And if there was an electrical shock, that's probably trouble. I have enough heart problems as it is.
(Of course, that was friday night, so everyone says "Oh, just come in on Monday") I did talk with my GP (conviniently my neighbor) and he said just to keep ice on it for at least 8 hours, and not to try to remove the metal or anything.
I know the blackened part is just a thermal flash burn, but it worries me that the necklace ridge might be electrical. My GP said that you can't know the severity of burns for several days. I just know that it *really* hurts.
And I still feel shocked. Totally numb. Which is bad, because I have an unbelievable amount of work that has to happen this weekend. And its taken me more than an hour to post this, because I keep staring off into space. Hard to do calculus in this state.
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