Not for the weak of heart...

So there was a stupid accident that happened Thursday. I was about to go and put in my visa application for Belarus. I forgot something and went back to my office. When I left, I think I was trying to take out the keys from my pocket, and that's when accident struck. My hand went in there so fast that somehow my thumb made contact with the pencil, and a piece of lead was then stuck just under my thumb's fingernail! It was pretty painful...

I tried to get help from the C&O staffs, but the pencil lead would break whenever they try to take it out. So Marg walked with me to the Health Services. Initially the nurse couldn't do it either, so she left me to wait for the doctor who is supposed very good at it. The wait was really long (well, considering that I was in pain, it was long), and when I saw the doctor, he couldn't get it out either... But the good news is, the pencil lead is not made of "lead" (which I knew from watching QI), it's made of carbon, so it's not toxic, and there would not be an infection. The bad news is, I'll have to wait for the nail to grow and push out the lead slowly...

So for the following weeks (hopefully not too many), I have a piece of lead in my thumb! It looks really disgusting, not good for the squimish, certainly. It's been a few days since then, and I felt much better now, even though I would still feel a bit when writing. I guess that makes for an interesting life story.