What I Did:
Shocked myself in the shower.
How I Did It:
When I was about 16 years old, we had a metal medicine cabinet (the thing with the mirrors that slide and it has shelves behind the mirrors and there's an integral light fixture as part of the top of the cabinet) that was adjacent to the shower. I kept my razor on a shelf of the medicine cabinet. The mirror door was open so I could just reach in and grab the razor while I was in the shower. I went to grab the razor but must have barely missed it while I was fumbling around with my hand to reach it. I must have touched the metal on the medicine cabinet. The electricity hung on to me so I couldn't retract my arm back from the medicine cabinet. It wouldn't let go of me! There I was standing in the shower, getting zapped, current running through me and I couldn't break free! It wouldn't let go of me! After about maybe 15 seconds to a minute, it eventually let go of me. I yanked my arm back to my body with all of my strength. My heart raced wildly for hours afterward. I barely could get myself out of the shower and into my room. I felt like I would pass out for at least an hour. I got an EKG about 20 years later, and found that I had bi-phasic P waves, so I must have killed part of the electrical system of my heart. I'm a slow learner. I did this twice. We had an electrician come over and fix it and he said the cabinet shocked him so bad it knocked him across the bathroom on his um, kiester and scared the um, stuffings out of him. I'm paraphrasing here, can you tell? He said it wasn't properly grounded. BTW, aren't electricians supposed to turn off the electricity before they work on electrical thingies?
Lessons Learned
- Never, never, never touch water or faucets or anything that might be at all connected with water while touching something electrical. Never. I won't even hold a blow dryer with my right hand and turn on a faucet with my left hand at the same time anymore. One, then the other, that's it, not both at the same time.
