I am terribly afraid of using a frying pan in the kitchen. The only reason for this is because when I was younger my little brother got hurt because of a small incident in the kitchen. I left my brother to remove a few sausages from in the pan and put them on a plate while I went to clean our room. I hear a loud feminine shriek and ran into the kitchen as fast as my little legs could have carried me. When I reached my destination, my view had me wanting to cry. I arrived to see the pan on the floor (in the middle of the room), pieces of the plate and some sausages scattered on the floor as well as my brother cowering on the floor between the stove and counter. I took his right hand and helped him stand but then he started whimpering repeating "my arm is burning, my arm is burning" as if it was a chant. I thought he was just frightened and I was too but it worried me that he may be hallucinating about his arm burning., yet I carried him to the bathroom and filled a bucket with water. I told him to tell me where on this arm was in pain and he stretched out his "left" arm for me to cheek. I felt tears leak and slide down my face as I watched his arm, from his elbow to his wrists there were dark blackish marks. I poured water on the mark repeatedly until he said he wasn't feeling the pain anymore. I bet that experience must of made him exhausted,so I put him to bed to rest.
From that day, I decided that that I won't ever leave my brother to be on the stove on his own. There has never been a day that I was not thinking about what had happened. I don't even let smaller children in the kitchen when I have to try cooking, but I still have this fear in my mind. I just hope that one day I will be able to make a change.
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