A 7-year-old burn got severely burned while helping mom cook

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Her 7-year-old son, Jayden, burned himself taking a bowl of water out of the microwave..

While Jayden watched TV in the living room, I chopped up some potatoes and carrots, put them in a bowl of water, and placed them in the microwave to cook while I went outside to do some laundry...

I immediately thought about how in cooking shows, you're told to put cold water on foods to stop the cooking process..

Apparently, so I was told by Jayden, he heard the microwave ding and thought to himself that he'd like to help Mommy with dinner..

During his treatment in the hospital, I was asked whether I wanted Jayden to have a skin graft or a new technology called epidermal autograft..