{"id":3497,"date":"2024-04-16T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:03","slug":"second-degree-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2024\/04\/16\/second-degree-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Second degree burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/burn-IMG_20240416_094000261.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/burn-IMG_20240416_094000261-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"839\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3498\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Quick wave over the kettle, steam kisses my left forearm<br \/>\nthe visceral effect is instant and long-lasting<br \/>\nraise the arm above the heart<br \/>\nbut it doesn\u2019t make the pulsating pain diminish<\/p>\n<p>fall asleep with ice, reduce pain to throbbing<br \/>\nit does not reduce the bubbles or damage under the skin<br \/>\nrainy, gray morning, the rain smashes my face<br \/>\nin the famous Nebraska wind<\/p>\n<p>the clock ticks in the sterile room<br \/>\neverything, white and red<br \/>\nbiohazard bucket bright brash burgundy<br \/>\nvoices<br \/>\nso many voices<br \/>\ntrigger memories long ago<\/p>\n<p>reminiscence I do not wish to recall<br \/>\nof pain and sterile rooms<br \/>\nof eyes staring up from below<br \/>\nof fake sympathy<br \/>\nof judgment<br \/>\nof isolation<\/p>\n<p>tachycardia<br \/>\nI am there<br \/>\nblack cherry wood bookcase, desk with a sheen<br \/>\nutterances claiming to soothe, but can\u2019t be trusted<br \/>\nI don\u2019t want to sit in the chair<br \/>\nforced to speak words unimaginable<\/p>\n<p>sterile rooms with no compassion<br \/>\ndispassionate adults going through the motions<br \/>\nI still see the penetrating side eyes<br \/>\nthey speak with discrimination<\/p>\n<p>salve, Neosporin, a bandage<br \/>\nlet it heal on its own<br \/>\nI\u2019ve heard those words before<br \/>\nthe blister will pop when it\u2019s ready<br \/>\nand new skin will grow<\/p>\n<p>wipers sway back and forth, soothing me inside<br \/>\nI can breathe again as I return home<br \/>\nto the safety, quiet and peacefulness<br \/>\nwhere the only danger is accidentally self-inflicted second degree burns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[285,294,377,380],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-ptsd","tag-trauma","tag-trigger"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}