I was seen by an A&E consultant this morning, who said that the burns are most superficial. There is a deep one, on my shoulder, and that will scar. Hopefully, it will lie under straps etc in the summer.
There was a lad in the cubicle next to me who was being treated for a firework burn to his thumb and middle finger. The doctor gave him a serious telling off, and told him to tell his friends that hundreds of people get injured that way every year and it's extremely dangerous. Outside the cubicles, the staff were saying they only had one firework injury last year, this year they've had dozens. When the nurse came to do my dressing she said that out of fifteen people in clinic this morning, five were firework injuries.
I received a much more discreet dressing and went on my merry way. I was thinking off snooping round, with camera, to record the media circus for the Royal Baby. But, despite the hospital fencing off a substantial area outside the main entrance, there were a mere five journalists and one TV camera waiting around outside. So I couldn't even be bothered to get out my camera to take a photo of what I had expected would be a media scrum.
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