Electrocuted while fixing my computer when I was 18. I was somewhat stoned and was testing various components in the machine. Kept unplugging and grounding the frame every single time. Same routine about 20+ times. Except of course I inevitably missed a step due to the monotony and thought I had already unplugged the computer from the machine. I went to click the exposed power button and instantly got thrown back against the wall and glued to the machine. No matter how hard I tried to unglue both my arms from the machine I couldn't do it. This went on for probably 25-30 seconds. My mother rushed in to the room and unplugged from the wall thankfully not being stupid and trying to help me directly.
I burnt all the flesh off my right thumb and passed out about 20 seconds after being released from my death grip with the fucking stupid computer. Woke up in the ambulance with all sorts of equipment all over me and barely knowing who I was.
Seriously lucky to be alive. A few more seconds of that and it was curtains. Had to have plastic surgery on my thumb (grafted from my arm) and have my heart monitored regularly for months since the charge has gone through one hand, across my chest, through my heart and down the other arm and out of my thumb.
The irony of my injury was that I couldn't roll any more joints for months. I deserved it for such a stupid darwin moment.
Happy days.
That has got to be the closest I've come.
Growing up I have had countless near misses though. Me and Alex (Seph) must have had about 20 incidents together given the way we careened around the place.
I burnt all the flesh off my right thumb and passed out about 20 seconds after being released from my death grip with the fucking stupid computer. Woke up in the ambulance with all sorts of equipment all over me and barely knowing who I was.
Seriously lucky to be alive. A few more seconds of that and it was curtains. Had to have plastic surgery on my thumb (grafted from my arm) and have my heart monitored regularly for months since the charge has gone through one hand, across my chest, through my heart and down the other arm and out of my thumb.
The irony of my injury was that I couldn't roll any more joints for months. I deserved it for such a stupid darwin moment.
Happy days.
That has got to be the closest I've come.
Growing up I have had countless near misses though. Me and Alex (Seph) must have had about 20 incidents together given the way we careened around the place.
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