Progress since July.

dave4d

July 1 of this year I was burned at work. Here is the picture that was taken of the burn.




I started dieting on August 26. I weighed 226 lbs.


This was taken on December 20. at 189 lbs.



The burn is healing nicely.

dave4d

@(!!! I'm an idiot.

bamshunny

Wow, that burn looks awfully painful. What happened? If you don't mind me asking. Good job on the weight loss you can def. see a difference!

dave4d

I work at a copper smelter. I was attempting to burn a hole that had been plugged up with copper. After about 3 burn sticks, we weren't all the way through, yet, so it had a puddle of molten metal. When my co-worker turned on my oxygen valve he accidentally turned it on too high, and it blew all that molten puddle back at me. Luckily I was wearing all my protective gear, or it would have been worse.

Gerald_King

Great loss ouch at the burn

DoingitWell

Congrats on the weight loss and happy healing.

rsharper97

Congrats on the weight loss. Glad to see the burn is healing nicely also.

bamshunny

Oh wow Dave.....that sounds extremely painful. It is a good thing you had your gear on. And I'm glad it's healing up real nicely. Congrats again on your weight loss!

astheygrowup

Congrats on the weightloss and that's awesome that the burn is healing up great! It looked so painful

sm1zzle

You've done a great job in a short period of time. Nice work

denisemc1407

Good work! You look great!!! (I once had a skillet of hot grease dropped on my stomach and chest, so I understand how those burns HURT!) :sad:

dave4d

Thanks everyone. Because of where it was at, they gave me the option of removing it completely. I asked him if they could do some lipo while they were at it. He said, no. So I figured I would have to lose the weight the healthy way. Last time I lost weight I had a lot of excess skin on my stomach. It was really disgusting when I did push ups, and saw all the saggy skin hanging off my abs.

Maybe I will remove the scar, if the skin doesn't shrink enough on its own.