I don’t think that they are going to go away completely he has low iron. He still has the marks from the burn on his arm. It probably didn’t help that he didn’t have a car, and he was home alone. A “small” thing like a lightning strike wasn’t going to change that.
He has broken limbs and been shot and still never saw a doctor. Winston never goes to the doctor for anything.
He just kinda holds/massages it until it goes away. Every now and then he gets intense pain that shoots up and down his arm. He said that his arm felt like he had done an intense workout. When I got home, I lanced his blisters because he was starting to mess with them, and I didn’t want him to bust them at work. About an hour later was when the lightning marks started to appear. He had this sort of burning sensation in his arm. When he looked at his arm, he didn’t see anything at first. Once the adrenaline wore off, his arm started hurting. That is probably why he didn’t feel anything at first. He quickly came inside with his adrenaline pumping. He heard something really loud and saw something bright in our neighbor’s backyard, about 150 feet away. It didn’t work none of the 15 pumpkins survived. He was digging a trench trying to divert the excess water away from his pumpkins. He was outside trying to save his pumpkins. I found out because I saw the blisters on his arm a week later when I got back to College Station. I don’t know exactly when it happened because didn’t tell me about it. The Lichtenberg figures on Winston’s arm are typical for those who have been struck by lightning, but from what I’ve read these “lightning flowers” usually only persist for a few hours or a few days it is odd for one to last as long as his has - now almost a month. Daphne and I are friends on Facebook when I saw her posted picture of Winston’s arm, I thought at first that he had a new bit of body art - possibly some kind of scarification or a red tattoo. Winston’s girlfriend, Daphne Cheek, has been my daughter Sarah’s best friend since they were in first grade. It’s probably only going to scar because I scar easily. There aren’t any other marks that I can tell. He said that there would be no point seeing a doctor now, 2-3 weeks after it happened. She talked to our family doctor about it. The closest I have come to seeing a doctor is talking to my mom (who is the head nurse at Pecos County Hospital).
Even now, almost a month later, I get random pains running down my arm that last for a few minutes and my shirt irritates it. I used after-tanning lotion that gave me. As it started to heal, it itched like crazy (like any burn). We were careful and wrapped it after lancing the blisters to prevent causing an infection.
#LIGHTNING SCARS SKIN#
I was trying to prevent entire pieces of skin ripping off. When got home, lanced the blisters to prevent them from busting while at work or sleeping. The week after it happened it ached and burned and the blisters kept on getting bigger. I felt sick to my stomach, I’m not sure if that was an after effect of the lightning, though. I walked around the house without a shirt on. The blisters started forming they were really big. A few hours after it happened it really started to bother me. No, it didn’t hurt when it happened, I didn’t even know it happened. That’s the only thing I could have come in contact with that would have caused the marks. I don’t know, I wasn’t even sure that it was lightning, but that’s the only thing I figured it was. I just went about my normal life until got back here and started freaking out. I just watched it to make sure that it was alright. But I didn’t … I don’t think I saw any marks until 30, 45 … maybe an hour before I saw the marks. I just came back inside like nothing was wrong. I just know it struck in our neighbor’s backyard, and it was bright and loud. (I guess it was May 21.) After that, I was going back inside.