Thursday night an old friend called me after 6 months of being out of touch. We talked about the usual, family other friends etc.. After about a half hour of catch up conversation I invited him to join me at a local car show. Dan showed up around 9am Saturday & crawled into the beast. I should note that Dan's medical condition has gone down hill in the last year or so with diabetes & other conditions. In fact he no longer works & has just been placed on permanent disability. Anyway, we started with a run to the bank & then headed to the car show. The show was larger than we expected and we sat in traffic for about 10 minutes, waiting to get to the show location. All the while the Beast temp kept creeping up getting closer to 100 degrees (C) 100c is sorta a boundary for me I don't like the see the beast go over that mark. Finally we get to the show location & back into our directed spot. I crawl out & sign up @ the registration table. On the way back I see Dan talking to a fellow car buff & looking down @ his back legs! Did I mention Dan was wearing shorts!
Dan had forgot about the side pipes and having diabetes, the nerves in his legs have been quite affected. Dan had three Cobra bites. Two on one leg & one on the other all about the size of a dollar bill.
But because of his diabetes; he hadn't felt the skin burning off his legs. His skin was still on the pipes in some spots
He took it like a real trooper & said it only started to hurt when he placed some ice on the worst burn. He said he remembered the pipes but for some reason forgot about them. That is, until he smelled his skin!
It's amazing what diabetes can do to your nervous system. Looking @ those burns I would have needed pain killers out the
Wazoo! I gave him the Best of Show Trophy my car won as a memento. I did feel really bad for him, but Dan said he now had a good story to go along with the coming scars. I am wondering if anyone else has any recent
Cobra Bite events to speak of?