Steam burn blister to pinkie?

lid fell off a whistling kettle while pouring hot water and burned pinkie. not sore but 2 large blisters that are still intact that are turning reddish. burn occured last monday, almost a week and i am not absorbing the water in the blisters, what do i do? as a nurse know not to break the blisters as it may cause infection and i have to go to work tues with intact blisters which will probably break at work. will go to a walk-in tomorrow but do you think it would be good to take some time off work to have them heal or just keep it dressed? i guess if i can keep it dry with a dressing it should be okay. just have some redness around the border of the 2 blisters and they don't hurt. just can't believe i have kept them intact so long, having a shower, camping and cottaging this week. any suggestions? thanks

"As a nurse"? Are you saying that you're a nurse and you don't know the answer? That is nervous-making.
I had a blister last week and I just let it be. Despite a bandage, it broke on its own. I don't really see how that's avoidable if you have a job where you work with your hands, and I am surprised your lasted as long as they did.
Also, it doesn't really seem like its breaking was so disastrous. Sure, I'll probably have a scar there and I had to be very careful to avoid infection, but call off work and go to a clinic? That seems a little--a lot--extreme.
Would your boss actually accept that as a reason for calling off, because mine would either laugh his head off, or cuss me out--or both--then tell me to haul it into work on time if I wanted to keep my job.

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