These pictures show a severe burn injury consisting of full-thickness burns to my legs. The burn team has chemically split the skin of my legs to prevent the swelling from cutting off the blood supply. Notice the plastic draped burn cart. These carts were wheeled into my room each morning, then rolled to the hydrotherapy room where the burn baths occurred.

My torso sustained a 2nd degree, or partial thickness burn injury. This is the area where the surgeons harvested skin for the skin grafts on my legs and arms. These are my burn injury admission photos. Most families of burn survivors are not thinking about legal issues at this stage of the injury. If you have someone in your family who has been burned take photos of them early and often during their burn treatment and rehabiliation. They will be valuable later on when trying to explain the pain and suffering endured to a jury.

These shots show the burn injury to my face with my eyes swollen shut. A feeding tube was inserted through my nose down to my stomach to provide nourishment. Parts of my ears were later cut off. The worst burns to my head were around my nose and mouth.

Hypertrophic or keloid scars appeared on my face six months after coming home from the hospital. No one could tell me why this occurred. My beard tried to grow through these scars leaving small infected areas. I consulted with a plastic surgeon as soon as the scars had matured enough.

Tissue expanders were inserted under the skin of my neck and expanded with saline solution. Later the scars were excised and the skin pulled up to repair the wound. This is part of the burn injury that was unexpected. Burn scars get better with time.