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TIFU by accidentally exposing myself to lead

I decided to post on here because i was listening to Smosh and Kallmekris around the time this went down.

I'm ruffly 14-16 and very into the arts. I have been into making jewelry resently and have gotten some new jewelry wire. I have had a hard time using it as it isn't as thin as I'm used to, and the ends keep sticking out and poking me when I make something. So I when downstairs to the basement to look in my dad's workroom to see if I could find anything useful, also he wasnt home. It seemed like he was working on somthing with wire and somthing that I think is called a cheeseboard or somthing with board in it. I saw this metal wire and I wanted to know if it would melt since the other metal wire I had wouldn't. (I was trying to melt the other wire to fuse two ends of a ring together, also I was using my dad's heat gun) Point is it melted so I made two shapes out of the metal and melted it. They came out as two very imperfect charms both had holes i could loop a string through. After that i went back upstairs and grabed my small metal file to shape the ruff edges and imperfections.

It came time to go to sleep and my mom told me to put stuff away after a bit I did. The next day I worked on it a bit but not to much and every time i cleaned up pretty good. Today l was working on it and my dad asked me what it was i was working on. I showed him the metal accessory i made and he asked me where i got it and what it was made of. I could have lied but I decided it was better not to since it usually just better just tell the truth (Unless it's sneaking snacks).

I told him that I made it with some wire form downstairs. He asked me to go get it. Once I gave it to him he looked at it and was like "I think this contains lead". He sat down and started reading it and told me and my mom it was tin mixed with 36% lead. My dad stated that it could cause neurological problems. I jokingly said "Dang it I have to many of those already". He did no find it amusing.

Me and my parents cleaned all my stuff up and i think we got most of the metal shavings. My mom said to take a shower so i did and am now in my room writing this. I know being exposed to lead can be very dangerous. My mom said she pretty sure I'll be fine but I'm still nervous about it.

TL;DR: I accidentally used partially lead based metal to make jewelry accessories and am nervous about it.

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