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In reply to the discussion: Dumbest ways you've injured yourself. [View all]noamnety
(20,234 posts)I burned my tongue something fierce trying to defrost my freezer. I was heating two butcher knives on a burner and jabbing them into the ice, one in each hand, to melt through it quicker. I wasn't sure how long it would take for the knives to cool off enough that they needed to be reheated, so I felt them. But since I had a knife in each hand, I didn't have an extra hand for feeling, so I laid one across my tongue. (No, I have no idea what I was thinking!) Anyway, no, it had not cooled off yet.
The other was less than a year ago, I gave myself frostbite while sitting on my couch in August. This is after a week of healing:
I did that as part of a weight loss plan. The really stupid part is that I learned afterwards that I didn't even have the ice pack in the right spot, it was too low to be effective. Brown fat is right at the base of the neck, not half way down the back.