My fingertips were black. Skin was hanging off of me. It was raw. After a week or so, I learned something about burn recovery I had never known. Skin that is severely burned turns into a white leathery-type substance called eschar.
Eschar is tenacious.
It sticks on the skin and it will not come off. They use topical medications to try to slowly melt the stuff away. If that doesn't happen, they take tweezers and a scalpel and they trim under this eschar. Right under this eschar is your nerves. It brought tears to my face every time they worked on me.