Health Care Tips for the Uninsured

If you are, like me, one of the 45 million Americans struggling without health insurance, and have mild frost bite, here is how to treat that: burns!
At first I didn't know why my fingers and toes were becoming sore and red and swelling and hard to move without pain. It didn't occur to me that while at work, I was being trained to polish glass. For those of you unfamiliar with this process it involves long hours of using a wet grinder in the cold shop (aptly named). Because my boss is too cheap to buy a water heater for this purpose all the water sprayed by this hand held tool comes from the ground pipes, and at the time it was still snowing outside! Couple that with my circulation problems and I didn't even notice that my hands were literally freezing.
Just when I realized what was going on I worried that it would prevent me from continuing my work for blowing glass in the hot shop (also aptly named) and working with steel for my mobile project. Luckily, my first day back in the studio went well and actually helped my fingers to better articulate. Between the furnace and the forge I've sustained a few mild burns and am now happy to report that the frost bite is gone!
Who needs doctors anyway?