I Touched a Fish

While snorkeling yesterday we made a rookie mistake and got caught up in really shallow rocky water. We were very close to the beach so I thought I could just paddle my way through it, but realized too late that I couldn’t. Anyway, long story short I put my left hand on a rock to balance myself and ended up touching something very sharp and painful. Reeling in pain I flipped over and then managed to scrape my back on that same sharp and pointy “thing.”

Just short of having a full on panic attack, Jason appeared and directed me out of the water while I swam on my back (my back didn’t hurt near as bad as my hand) and held my throbbing hand above the water. After we finally made it to shore we inspected my hand to see that I had what looked like four black slivers in my forefinger. Then my finger went numb and I couldn’t bend it…

After some internet research and a call to a diver’s hotline, Jason found out that it wasn’t coral on the rock, but rather some kind of fish or sea urchin that I touched. It just looked like a rock to me, but then again my snorkel goggles were fogged up and filled with water so I was obviously totally wrong.

The feeling still has not come back to my finger 100%, but my guess is that by the end of the day it’ll be like nothing happened.

So Alex, I touched a fish. Jealous?