Okay, so I'll go first yeah?
When I was in TY, my niece had scratched my tummy. A little too wildly, such that my belly button had a little teensy wound which had caught an even milder infection. Now, my physician told me that I should clean it with neat dettol. Neat as in, undiluted. So, I sat with cotton to clean the wound. As soon as I did, knocks on my door told me my cousins had arrived for family dinner. I'm like oh darn, I'm not wasting the dettol and I don't have the time to clean the wound so I did the next best (Read stupid) thing. I placed the dettol laced ball of cotton on my belly button and put a masking tape on it, thinking, I'll go say hi, and in 2 minutes be back and remove the cotton. I completely forgot about the dettol in my poor little navel and also conveniently forgot how alkaline dettol really is. Much past mid-night when the dinner was done with, I changed. That's when it struck me, oh ball of cotton. Mind you, I was still happily oblivious to the effect of said dettol on my navel. I rinsed with water and hell broke loose! Oh the bloody burn. I was in no position to even sit up straight, it hurt that bad. Doctor was called home, of course after a lot of chiding and telling me how irresponsible and stupid I was, she gave the verdict. Third degree alkaline burn. Ta-Dah! It took 3 months to heal, another 7 or so months to get regular looking skin. I can still tell the difference in skin colour though.
So this was my W*F and WTH and weirdest and dumbest moment in life!
Tell me, have you ever heard something like this before?🤣
What was yours?
Chakravarti Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan
Mangal Lakshmi
