accident-prone

it's was a pretty accident-prone day ytd for me... esp on my right hand...

durin lab, my hand got too much 70% ethanol tt it 'caught fire' while i flame to sterilize the needle for d vacuum pump. it was naked flame so i dun see any fire on my hand but i could suddenly felt my middle finger burning.

wat will u do when this happen? norm ppl will react almost immediately. it's a natural reflect tt need not go thru any thinking in d brain. so wat did i do? i stayed calm and think. ya. no natural reaction. i analyze the situation. believed that the flame will go away once ethanol is used up. but when d pain was too much, i decided to cover my fingers w my left hand to deplete d air for d fire and i happily continued my practical w/o any other reaction or interruption.

my friends was amazed at my reflexes and teased that my spinal cord is faulty and thus, no 1st reflexes. they were also amazed hw i could still calmly finished up my experiment like nothing had happened. even when my gloved is already burnt with a hole left. and i only went to wash and treat my 'wound' aft i was done with d lab session.

well, it is a 2nd degree burn with a blister. d burnt was intensified at the place where the hole was created by the naked flame. & i tot i only burnt my middle finger but i got to realize tt i oso burnt my 4th finger but that was more minor. it is a 1st degree burn.

& not only did i burnt my fingers by accident. back hm, aft shower, b4 exitin fr d bathrm, i bumped my right elbow on d wall. tt hurts & i almost scream out on 1st reaction.

hope no more accident fr nw on...