Mindy and I have drastically different senses of humor. I think mean things are funny and I am extremely sarcastic. While she is just completely absurd and ridiculous.
She has these 2 shirts that make me laugh every single time she wears them. The shirts are just silly, but it's the memory of when she wore these specific shirts that makes me laugh still.
This past June, Mindy had the end of her middle finger bitten off by a dog. Our dog and another dog got into a fight. When Mindy was trying to pull our dog away, she turned around and snapped at Mindy. It was chaos. Mindy yells "They bit my fucking finger off." She goes down the hallway yelling about how we needed to go to the hospital immediately, gets a towel wrapped around her hand, and sits in the car.
Meanwhile, I have no idea what exactly has happened and I am putting the dogs away as quick as I can. I don't notice the blood everywhere.
We get to the hospital and Mindy is clearly in a lot of pain. It was horrible. They have to do an X-ray before they can give her any medication. An orderly wheels her down to the x-ray room with me following close behind. The orderly asks how Mindy got her finger bitten off. Keep in mind that she is rocking back and forth, obviously in massive amounts of pain. Mindy responds with " I was trying to get a bite of her pancakes." I could not believe she was cracking jokes in that kind of pain.
After the X-Ray, they take her back to a room and the doctor comes in to analyze the situation. Mindy refuses to look at her finger. I still have no idea how much she lost. I was not prepared for this.
Yes. That is the bone sticking out at the end. They had to give her 3 shots, 1 in the wound, 1 in the lower part of the finger and 1 in her palm. Once the medication kicked in she had me take this picture and told me to immediately put it on facebook and not tell anyone what happened. Have I mentioned that Mindy is a bad ass?
I get Kayla to come and sit with Mindy at the ER so I can go home and clean up the mess. Apparently blood had just been squirting out of the end of her finger. I am not easily disgusted so I get some bleach and start scrubbing. Horror movies did not prepare me. While cleaning the living room, I found the end of her finger. I immediately vomited. Then, I put it in a baggie and set it in the freezer. (Mindy told me if I found it to put it in the freezer)
Mindy ended up having to have surgery to shave down the bone and close the wound. To her doctors visits, she wore a shirt that says "I'm Not a Weenie." and this shirt.
She was a hit at the hand surgeon's office.


AHHHHH I *am* a weenie because AHHHHHH and also GAHHHH and ICKKKKKK.
ReplyDeleteThat was my exact reaction when I found the finger.
DeleteI was not prepared for that. I was going to crack a horrible joke a botu vampires, but I can't. Dear God, I can't!
ReplyDeleteIt's a pretty gnarly picture.
DeleteThat's a good fucking finger to lose! Um... pun not intended... or maybe it is... Heehee...
ReplyDeleteWe heard a lot of similar jokes. lol
DeleteWOW!!! Tough girl. Love someone who keeps a sense of humor no matter what.
ReplyDeleteI definitely would not have held up that well.
DeleteOh my God!! I would flip out if if that happened to me or if I saw that happen.
ReplyDeleteIn those moments, flipping out is not an option. lol
DeleteThanks to Facebook, I was prepared for this picture (since you so lovingly tagged me in it and I see it every time I go to my page....thanks, by the way), but even being prepared wasn't enough. ICK. Just ick. Mindy is so bad ass it's not even funny. What I do find funny is that her finger is just chilling in your freezer.
ReplyDeleteI did enlarge the picture for this blog. Maybe I just should have shown a picture of the freezer finger?
DeleteI like the image of the instant vomiting upon finding a finger tip.
ReplyDeleteFuck that's messed up. Did they attach the end of the finger or does she have a short middle finger? I'm not easily queasy but effff would I have fainted if I were her.
Heh. Meaty.
Since we didn't find the finger til a couple of hours later, they couldn't attach it. She lost the tip including all of the nail.
DeletePlease tell me you tagged my sister in that so it would come up on her page again?
ReplyDeleteOoo. I didn't. But I should.
DeleteUgh. A moment ago I was thinking about how I needed a snack. Thank you for taking care of that craving for me.
ReplyDeleteMindy is bad ass.
You're welcome.
DeleteAnd yes she is.
I don't think I have ever read a blog post and felt both nausea and hilarity at the same moment. I congratulate you! And seriously, Mindy is a badass.
ReplyDeleteI do miss that fingernail.
ReplyDeleteI'm never going in your freezer to get ANYTHING...EVER! -Juniper-
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