[GH85Carrera]

I had fun yesterday evening.

We had to clean the Koi pond filter. The pump is in a filter bag and the bag was covered in alga blobs. I had to remove the pump from the pump box that is full of water. To remove it, the pump has to be off. There is a large Russian sage bush in the way of the plugs. So I needed to turn off the power at the electrical panel.

I recently had a 8 foot florescent light bulb burn out, and the bulb was leaning in the corner by the panel cover. I had to move it out of the way and managed to lean it back enough to get whacked by one of the ceiling fans in the garage. Pow, tinkle tinkle. Cuss words followed by crunch crunch of the pieces of the bulb on the floor.

I shut the power off, and and stuck my hand into the water to retrieve the pump. My finger was stinging and when I pulled the pump and my finger from the water, I was bleeding liike a stuck pig. A blood trail back to the garage. I managed to stop the bleeding and put on my parts washing glove to put the cleaned pump back in the pump box and get the pond waterfall back running.

When I looked at the wound, I knew I needed stitches. More cussing ensued.

So off to the local ER at 7:00 PM to get stitches. Just three stitches. I told the doc I put that hand in the Koi pond water. So he wrote a prescription for antibiotics that I picked up today.

He numbed the finger and it is still numb. And it looks a little swollen. It is weird to have a totally numb finger, but better than pain I guess.

We got back home at 9:00 so a two hour trip to ER for stitch up a boo boo.