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Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 7:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Nick, aloe vera even comes in a spray bottle which is awesome, you spray it on and lightly rub it in if needed (its great since their skin is so sore.)

Make sure he's also drinking plenty of fluids (water/gatorade.) Also might want to give him some chapstick. I can think of a dozen places I'm positive hurt more than anywhere else (at the time they hurt) but lips really are that sensitive and painful, at least for me.

Coppertone has a clear spray sunscreen that you spray on and don't have to rub in. I love that stuff. Walgreens has it for 10 bucks, yesterday I saw two cans for $11 at Walmart. I go through tons of it, not just for me, but we've always got other peoples kids here during the summer and I can just line em up and spray em down and the older ones can do themselves. Caleb has a bottle in his backpack for track practice and Kota has one in her bat bag, both of them are pretty good about remembering it on their own I think cuz it's so easy to use.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 8:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Vnick, I'd sure call "daddy" and let him know that next time your son is with him, it is his responsibility to keep him safe, that includes safe from the sun.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 9:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
V'nick, flannel sheets. After you have treated his skin (do they sell Aloe Vera in a spray can?), let him sit/lie on a flannel sheet, and if he needs a cover, same thing. Flannel does not rub/chafe like other materials do. A true life saver, believe me. Been there, done that way too often.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
I did find a spray aloe for Nick. I also picked up a spray Benedryl just in case. He's taking Tylenol for the pain.

I hadn't heard of the flannel sheets before. Great idea Lum! :o)

And Escapee ... believe me, I will let 'daddy' know what his 'irresponsibility' has caused us today. Not only the pain of the sunburn but lost time at school and work. Ugh!!!

Has anyone heard of 'vinegar' baths? I thought that's what my mom used to do when my sister had sunburns.


Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 9:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I've heard baking soda paste works well to pull the heat out too.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
I am a redhead and the only real relief is time. Things like solarcaine can take the bite out for a while. ANd real aloe, like the plant itself can relieve. Things like aloe vera cream won't work if it is made with any kind of alcohol. Also noxema and the like will only keep the heat in. I would think satin sheets would be better than flannel, again, flannel holds onto the heat.

Also motrin will help with the pain.

Is there any blistering? I've been blistered tons of times and that was with sunscreen! (Just didn't reapply enough!)

Guess the best bet is a combination is the spray stuff like solarcaine and motrin and time.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Oh, if you do anything with vinegar, make sure it is apple cider vinegar. Another remedy is cold skim milk on a washcloth and use like a cold compress.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Julie, I'll bet you are like me, I burn to a crisp in the shade, freckle and turn back to white.

Buy an aloe vera plant. That works well, and while it's still wet and gooey on the skin, turn on a ceiling fan. Keep plenty of fluids in him, decaf green tea for the fluid and antioxidants or smart water for the electrolytes.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Yep Escapee, that is the routine! The best feeling is an aloe vera plant, crack open a leaf and let the gooey stuff do its magic. Problem is the relief is way too short...

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Lum, not a spray can but a spray bottle. The little nozzle thingie is a bit big for the thicker spray and works great cuz you don't have to really rub it in much.

I've never heard of using vinegar. Tea bags is what mom used to use on me. Really though the only thing I ever remember helping was the aloe vera and a fan or a cool shower/bath.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Another fair-skinned redhead here and my mom made a paste of vinegar and baking soda to put on me. Really though, nothing works all that well but time.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Has anyone heard of 'vinegar' baths? I thought that's what my mom used to do when my sister had sunburns.

Yes and I had many of them as a child and while they stunk and made me stink, they took alot of the sting away. You can also do vinegar compresses if you don't want to sit in it, but the bath works better.

Last year when I got fried on my chest when I went to Adventureland. NOTHING worked. I couldn't even lay down without it hurting. Went to WalMart at 3am it was so bad. [I'm the type of person that the sunburn doesn't usually show up for hours, but then it's nasty.] Of course at that time there is nobody in the pharmacy, so looked at all the burn stuff and did an eeny meeny miney mo thing, and ended up buying Dermoplast. I got the kind in the red can. One spray and I felt soooooooooooooooo much better. The first 24 hours I used it every 2 - 3 hours. More often than the can says but we had meeting the next night and one of the ladies in the auxiliary is a nurse and she said to do it that often for the first 36 hours if needed.

CLOSE YOUR EYES JULIE - For minor sunburns I use Sea Breeze. YES it has alcohol in it, but this was told to me by my doctor in Kansas. Sea Breeze, then oil free lotion on my face, aloe vera jelly on the rest of the burn. It takes the sting out, and I have never once peeled. I know it sounds wrong because Sea Breeze has alcohol in it, but it works. And the aloe vera jelly - I keep it in the fridge.

I also heard that noxema keeps the heat in. Never slept in flannel sheets YUCK!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Twinkie, vinegar and baking soda? You musta been bubblin like a little volcano!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Maybe that's why Twinkie has such a bubbly personality?

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Dermaplast!! That was the other thing like solarcaine that i was trying to think of. The best thing about these types of things (love the word thing!) is that you can spray it. You don't have to touch your skin, let alone rub it!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
OMG, Sea Breeze?? Serate, you just made my eyes tear up imagining what that would be like!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Maybe normal skin does not react to (shudder) things like SeaBreeze like ours does... That's all I can think of!

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 11:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
We just had a bout of good weather this past weekend here, and I got a burn because one of my bottles of last year's cream must be "off" because I applied all over, but only parts of me burned in the weirdest patterns.

Anyways, I am sleeping on the nice smooth cool satin side of my Luxe blanket. Sating sheets are AWESOME. You slide around, the material cools off quicky so you can slide back an forth as the material warms under you, and the material itself is so smooth, it doesn't hurt to move around.

I don't usually burn because I'm good with my lotion, but I am currently using that green aloe vera gel and hoping it works. And Advil. But the satin blanket is helping me the most.

I hope your sun feels better soon Vacanick; I feel for him!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
LOL on hoping Vaca's "sun" feels better!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Actually War and Julie, I do have sensitive skin as far as can't use much to wash it with and even less types of lotiion. [my hands look like I'm 80 since I can't use lotion on them] I can't wear make up. And it doesn't sting!!!!! Usually the only place I use it is my face and then not with a bad burn like I got last year, just with minor stuff.

I don't like satin sheets but then again when I had them I didn't take care of my feet and rough feet + satin sheets just don't jive. For me at least.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
New gripes today!!!!!

First of, what is with the attitude of people calling me today?!?!

First call of the day was a woman who wanted to verify contact information from my company. As a rule, and for security reasons, I do not give out any information, I don't even verify the number they just called. She says what company she is from, and what she wants, and she goes into this big long spiel, and I finally deduce that she is a sales person. Ok, I get that sales people have a craptastic job and have to get out all the information they can without letting anyone else say a word. So once she's done I ask "Ma'am would you happen to have a contact name so I can connect you with someone who can assist you?" We have close to 400 employees, and no, I don't know EVERYONE, close, but not quite. She says "No, why can't you just verify information for me?"
I say "I am not authorized to verify any information, but if you have a contact name or a specific department you usually work with I can transfer you."
I get a big "UGH, I don't know what you want me to say" and I say "Well, what is this in regards to?" and she says "Payments and billing, I already said that."

So I say "Ok, I can connect you with someone who can help you." and I transfer her on.

A few minutes later I get a call from customer service and the gal says "Did you just get a bad call?" I say "YEs the lady was NOT pleasant" and she said "Yeah, she said YOU needed an attitude adjustment"
with that we both were lol'ing because I am usually overboard nice to people.

THEN:


My company donates a lot of stuff. But, we require a charitable contribution request for be filled out by the requester. So when I get a request sans that form, I have to contact the company/person requesting and ask them if I can send them one to fill out. Most people are really nice and happy that I've contacted them and have no issue sending the complete form right back. If I don't have a form filled out by the requester, the request does not go to committee to be decided on. This is all explained in the request form.

Well, I received a request letter today, sans the form (they are available online, where most of our requesters find us) and I call the contact number for the organization requesting and speak to the lady who requested. And I thank her for thinking of us for her event, and ask her if she wouldn't mind filling out our request form and returning it to me.

GEEZ, you'd think I'd have asked her for her kidney or something.
She was so put off. She was like "Hmph, well, all the information you could possibly need is in my letter, can't YOU just fill it out?"
I say "Unfortunately, I am not authorized to do so, and I would hate to miss any important information for your organization".
I get a big "UGH" from her and a "FINE send me the form and I'll return it to you when I get a chance."



Well, she never sent me back the form before the committee met, so we were unable to donate to her, and now I have to send her a letter regarding why we rejected her request. I to write her and say "It's because you have a bad attitude and you'd think if you want something from someone, you'd be a little nicer about it." Instead, I write we do not have unlimited resources and would like to respond positively to the many requests we receive, but it is not possible at this time and best of luck in all their endeavors, yadda yadda.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 3:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Bubbly? bub

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
well dang. now i know why you didn't answer my call, Rachel!

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 6:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Can I ask, Escapee, if a person called and simply asked for the company snail mail address, would you give it to the person straight out? I sure hope so. When I was working and needed an address, I'd call and ask whoever answered -- it was business to business question. I might get a "Who's calling (asking)?" and maybe further questions. Puleeeease. Then sometimes I'd turn around and ask, "Is your address confidential information?" I worked for an attorney in a mid size firm. Attorneys had direct lines. Anyone who'd call and ask for address -- no problem. I didn't need to know who.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 7:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
roflmao, landi, it's because of the company we co-pack for, they are an even bigger company than we are and that is why it's like getting into Ft. Knox. While it's alright to verify the address where i am, i still need to know why someone is asking for the address because I have to log it in.