They've got this Pasar thing that goes on there for the staff and I think they have sellers for all sorts of things. She usually comes home with fruit, but on one of those days, she came home with 3 goldfish in a little clear packet secured with rubber band. We didn't have a fish tank then, and I put the goldfish in a bucket! Yes one of those pails put into the toilet. It was green in colour.
Anyway, the next week I bought a goldfish bowl from the petshop near the Tampines 24hr clinic. It was one of those rounded bowls made of very very thin glass. Its the kind that you see on TV sometimes. Well, the fish were happy to be out of the bucket and into the bowl and they were doing fine for a time.
The thing is, when we bought the bowl, the guy at the shop did warn us to be extremely careful while washing it. He said it could break easily. I did heed his advice, but.......yes, accidents do happen. And they tend to happen when you're tired.
What happened was I came home from work one night and I needed to change the water. Now, my usual practice was to scoop out the fish with a plastic bowl and carry the bowl with 2 hands to the toilet and pour the water away, then wash and fill it up. Yes I know, I know, you fish enthusiast out there will notice that I fill it up with fresh water from the tap. Not dechlorinated and our bowl doesn't have a filter or oxygen pump.
Back to the point.
Well I was tired and it was late. Instead of using 2 hands, I just used my right hand to hold the bowl at the rim where it was curved over the top open end. And yes, the laws of physics applied and the glass shattered, cutting my 4th and 5th fingers of my right hand. Basically my working/writing hand. It was a nightmare. There was lots of blood all over the place and I couldn't stop the bleeding despite applying pressure. I knew I needed stitches, but the clinic I worked at was closed already.
Tampines 24hr Clinic came to mind and Lynn rushed me over. The nurse didn't recognize me intially cos I was wearing my army grey singlet. There was a locum at that time and it was pretty quiet. Now, I knew I needed stitches, but I wasn't keen on having myself stitched. It would have meant giving myself a digital block around my 2 fingers and for those of you who know me, I am very scared of pain. Yes I am.
Ok, I was hoping to get away with just using the tissue glue to glue up my 2 lacerations which were actually very nice and straight. But guess what!!!???!!! They had run out of tissue glue. Wah Lau! Just my luck man.
Anyway, I needed to work the next day and I needed to chop chop settle my problem. I decided to use Steri-strip which they thankfully had. The steri-strip managed to hold my wound together and I used Coban dressing to keep it tightly in place.
End of story is I managed to go to work the next day and still write. I did not use fountain pens for the next few days.
Ok here's the nicer part. Check out our fish. Photos aren't great, cos I'm no expert and can't seem to get sharp shots with the fish still swimming.
Our Ring Wraiths! Nazgul........
All of them together
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