A fellow bloggers ankle injury reminded me of a funny story.........................
Back in 2003 I was residing in Apple Valley, CA at the edge of the Mojave dessert on one side and the El Cajon Pass on the other side. My husband was the Shop Director the BNSF railway at the Barstow Shop. He had a fellow shop director in from Montana and they were coming to our house for supper. We were just going to do a simple grill.........hot dogs and hamburgers. This was very informal and very last minute. I was furiously chopping red onion while my husband and said colleague were basking on the veranda with cool drinks........I look down and I am missing part of an appendage.......hmmm where did the other half of my thumb go???? It was just here a second ago. Now mind you, this severed thumb incident would have been an all out 4 alarm fire for most people.....MOST PEOPLE....I am not like most people. I don't freak over illness or injury too easily and can clear up most incidents w/holisitic remedies. I personally think that most people run to the doctor every time they fart sideways and I hate that. I am totally the opposite. I don't drag myself to the doc until I have exhausted every holistic remedy and they are engraving my tombtone plot. Of course, I could not up and leave this intricate dinner of hot dogs to drive myself to the E.R (hells to the no)........which this definately was an incident worthy of an E.R. A self-proclaimed foodie would NEVER leave her entertaining post, you go down with the ship, even if it was just hot dogs. I have standards, I have morals, I had an audience waiting for food.....well 2 people anyway and I guess 1 was my husband so he really didn't count. OK, so I had one person waiting for my culinary delight of hot dogs on the grill and trust me, this guy didn't look like he was starving either. So, I find the other half of my thumb, which was still attached....just dangling off, and I grab for the super glue. I superglue my thumb back on (which is what the ER would have done anyway, DUH) and wrap it up good and tight and continue on with my grilling feast. Hot dogs w/all the fixin's were superb.........there is nothing like a good Hebrew National Grilled Dog w/all the condiments.
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I am very concerned about the lead character from this story.
You're always entertaining!
Marthat Stewart would be proud!
WHAT A WOMAN! Did the blood make for a nice sauce on the dogs or did you just "forget" to tell the guest what all the red was? You are correct-Super Glue-Surgical Variety (More expensive) is exactly what they do, but probably with a side of anti-biotic so the appendage would not rot off.
To this day you can't even tell where it happened. That is how GOOD I am. I swear I should have been a surgeon. My thumb is as smooth as the inside of a baby mango. Injury or not.......the meal MUST go on!!!!!!
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