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I can't count the number of times my wedding band has been caught of various objects, thru the years.....fortunately, I've been able to react quickly enough to not lose a finger.....however, when I was a kid, I saw a guy jump off a cotton trailer, and his wedding band caught on the top rail.....it ripped the skin completely off, and left nothing but the naked bone exposed.....the doc just cut off the excess bone, sewed up the end, and he was back at work the next day.....so, ya'll be careful out there with your fingers, especially, this time of year, when everyone's working on deer stands, foodplots, and working around chain saws and equipment.
FOX 16 News:
"""A Tennessee mother who felt some pain, after catching her left ring finger on the fence at her son’s T-ball practice said she initially thought her wedding band had cut her skin, but then she looked down and realized that her finger was gone.
“When I hopped down, my finger just didn’t come with me,” Chelsey Brown, of Clarksville, told Fox News.Brown’s husband, Kyle, quickly ripped his shirt off and put it on her hand to stop the bleeding. The two rushed to the car and were met by a nurse who came running from a nearby field.“A nurse from another field came running over to the car and was like ‘I’m a nurse, do you need a First Aid kit?’ and I was like, ‘It’s my finger, it’s gone,’” Brown said. “She was like ‘Where is it?’ and I said ‘It’s still on the gate.’”
Brown’s husband went to retrieve her finger, which was hanging on the fence by her ring, while the nurse used a cell-phone charger to form a makeshift tourniquet to stop the bleeding. They rushed to nearby Tennova Healthcare, where doctors arranged for a Life Flight to take her to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.The injury also tore the tendon attached to the finger clean from Brown's elbow, canceling any hope for reattachment. Doctors told Brown that even if they attempted to reattach it, the finger would die within one day.
“The doctor took one look at it and was like ‘There’s no way I could reattach this. Everything is just so shredded,’” Brown said.
Her recovery has included battling phantom pain, and will require six weeks of physical therapy to help her adapt to the missing finger."""
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