I got an ambulance ride tonight

[Food Lady]

Are you k-something? So cool! Friend me over there.

[kpzra]

That's me. Will do.

[Nurian]

Watch out, Food Lady. Looking at his forum username, I'd say he's a hardened criminal

[kpzra]

Watch out, Food Lady. Looking at his forum username, I'd say he's a hardened criminal

If you're talking about me, I'm a she. The username was an inside joke with friends at the time since my usual username is very girly.

From my bio:
Former Paramedic, Army wife, and now Mommy to a baby girl
Mom/DAV wife

[Kagato]

LOL, you guys. I drove 20 miles to the plastics doc this morning for him to tell me he can't tell how bad it is for 2 more weeks. So I'm supposed to go back. Add to the bills. To me it looks like a really bad popped blister now. The actual hole has scabbed over. I have feeling now; it has been sore all day whenever I touched anything. (I was instructed to leave it uncovered and function as usual). The actual injury site feels stiff. So we'll see.

I talked to my RN friend who told me if I'd had a heart episode, I'd have known by now. I think the ER docs were going to do an EKG but didn't. I have no idea if any problems will show up later, but worrying is of no use, though my mom keeps bringing it up. I think she's concerned because my brother has heart issues.

Hope things work out ok - The fact you can actually feel pain there means that the nerves are still intact at the very least from the sounds of it, when you say it "feels stiff", do you mean when you physically try to move the finger?

Certainly sounds like it could have been a heck of a lot worse - and I will pretty much repeat what the others have said, ALWAYS unplug when working on anything electrical. Make a habit of instinctively doing it.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Shocking!

Glad you're okay.

[Chromatix]

Speaking of changing light bulbs, I've got a fluorescent tube in the kitchen that needs replacing.

Yesterday, I actually remembered to get a new tube. I put it next to the old one - yes, it's the right size. Open the fridge next to it to put the food away...

...and the cover for the light fitting promptly falls off the shelf where I'd put it several days previously, and lands squarely on the new tube. BANG.

It was still in it's box, so contained, but utterly shattered. The old tube, sat right next to it, is still intact. FML.

At least the tubes are not hideously expensive, but they are awkwardly large to carry back from the megaultrasuperhypermarket.

[Merriweather]

Getting a shock can be scary - to all those around. I've been lucky, I get a lot of minor shocks, but nothing major that I recall. Hubby, though, had a bad one a few years ago. He was being nice, and hanging something on the wall for me. FYI, yes, I can hang a picture myself, honest , but it needed one of those hooks you have to drill a hole for, and at the time, we only had a huge heavy drill. I have weak wrists, and with that drill, could never manage a straight hole. Anyway, he hadn't turned off any electricity, because based on where the nearest plug & switches were, there shoudn't be any wires anywhere near where he was drilling. He began to drill, and next thing we knew, there was a puff of smoke, and he was off the ladder & halfway across the room .

He was fine, shook up (as was I), no immediate or later problems, very lucky.

But we both learned a valuable lesson for life - just because things appear on the surface to be the same, never, ever assume that they really are the same when you've moved to a different country.

[Food Lady]

^ Oh, wow! It's not funny, but I guess mine wasn't that bad. It seems to be healing nicely, but is numb in places. I hope that's not permanent.

[Kagato]

Speaking of changing light bulbs, I've got a fluorescent tube in the kitchen that needs replacing.

Yesterday, I actually remembered to get a new tube. I put it next to the old one - yes, it's the right size. Open the fridge next to it to put the food away...

...and the cover for the light fitting promptly falls off the shelf where I'd put it several days previously, and lands squarely on the new tube. BANG.

It was still in it's box, so contained, but utterly shattered. The old tube, sat right next to it, is still intact. FML.

At least the tubes are not hideously expensive, but they are awkwardly large to carry back from the megaultrasuperhypermarket.

You sure it is the tube and not the starter? If it flickers on and off, it usually means the little starter unit is buggered. Fluorescent tube generally last a REEEEEALLY long time unless you shatter them.