Highland Center, in Southeast Iowa | MN Dave 2 - 4/2/2025 10:41 About 40 years ago I was working on a battery on a 2+2 and accidentally welded my wedding ring to a 9/16" wrench (it didn't take long to do it). It took a long time for the burnt skin around my ring ringer to heal, I still have a nice scar. I haven't wore my wedding ring since, I would have to get it resized anyway. A couple of years after the battery accident, my wife and I attended a Minnesota Twins baseball game in the twin cities. My wife and I had been married for about 7 years and at the time we had left our 4 year old daughter home with G&Gma and my wife was about 8 months pregnant with our 2nd child. Lets just say she was great with child. My wife wasn't wearing her wedding rings either because her hands were swollen at the time and I wasn't wearing mine either. In the later innings of the game, I noticed the elderly lady who happened to be sitting next to me REALLY looking at us, checking us out. It kinda puzzled me why she was so obviously checking us out and I realized that she was looking for wedding rings on our fingers. I leaned over to my wife and in a loud whisper said "maybe we should get married"???. My wife, bless her heart, knew nothing of what I was doing and could not have better job if she had practiced said "NO". My "for the kid" got another "NO!!!" I never did explain to the old lady that we had already been married for 7 years..
I was doing Lab billing in the office that was next to the hospital lab where I worked. The front door of the hospital was the visitors etc entrance, emergency was around the corner under a portico. A man walked up to the office window and asked if he could get some help. I was the only one in that area at the time, and asked what he needed. He held up his left hand. Flesh from 1st knuckle to 2nd; clean bone from 2nd to 3rd; nothing from there on out. I took him back to ER, where someone asked if he knew where the rest of his finger was. He reached in his front jeans pocket and pulled out the tip end of his finger with the tendons and flesh attached.. I let the ER crew handle it from there. |
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